One of the most intriguing and insightful individuals we ever sat down with is former Gang Intelligence Coordinator for the Utah police department, Sgt Ron Stallworth. Currently teaching, he is considered in law enforcement circles to be the foremost expert on what many have dubbed gangsta rap. Yes, we know over the years there’s been [...]

Longtime Berkeley activist Joseph Anderson weighs in on the ongoing debate around Occupy Oakland on the issue of diversity of tactics and the use of BlackBloc style tactics. He weighs in on the recent debate between Chris Hedges and Occupy oakland organizer Kristof Lopaur Well, by now everyone in the Occupy movement is hotly debating [...]

The other day I put out an article questioning why the FBI and other law enforcement outlets were not classifying the German man accused of setting 50 fires in LA, a terrorist. You can peep that HERE My main objective was to show you the hypocrisy of our government and those in power and how [...]

Harry Burkhart, a German national upset about the immigration status of him and his mother was said to be in court the other week  for his mother’s hearing yelling “F— the United States!” This same Harry Burkhart was just arrested, accused of setting more than 50 arson fires in Los Angeles including one at the [...]

With 2012 upon us, we wanna encourage folks to seriously take some time to invest and make room in the cypher and at the proverbial Hip Hop roundtable table for our sistas who hold it down on the mic. There have been far too many discussions about where are the female emcees and why don’t [...]

Usually this at this time of year, I like to reflect on all that gone down over the past 365 days and figure out what sort of steps to take in order build upon past victories and successes. I also like to reflect on what sort of steps to take to avoid and recover from [...]

Last night’s  City Council where they were scheduled to debate giving the police power to crack down on anyone trying to shut down the Ports of Oakland  was beyond contentious to say the least…There was a lot of frustration a lot of anger and a lot of finger-pointing. On 3 different occasions an angry, bellowing [...]

Many of us recall last January when the Arab Spring broke out in Egypt, we cheered as Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was ousted as many talked about how the army was revered. After Mubarak stepped down, most of us here in the US went about our day-to-day lives thinking that Egypt’s darkest days were over.. [...]