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Bad Beef
Rap beef is form of capitalist accumulation that enriches artists—and, most of all, the corporate suits that run their record labels.
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Austin McCoy
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Public Books
on
January 9, 2025
It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop
We cannot understand the last fifty years of U.S. history—certainly not the first thing about Black history—without studying the emergence and evolution of rap.
by
Austin McCoy
via
The Baffler
on
January 9, 2024
Defund the Police
Protest slogans and the terms for debate.
by
Austin McCoy
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Perspectives on History
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June 12, 2020
Martin Luther King Was a Law Breaker
On the second anniversary of MLK's assassination, political prisoner Martin Sostre wrote a tribute emphasizing his radical disobedience.
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Austin McCoy
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Martin Sostre
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Martin Sostre Institute
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April 1, 1970