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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The Fifth Pillar: A Case for Hip-Hop Architecture
For Black Southerners, preservation has been challenging, even at an institutional level. Take, for example, the bounty that historically Black colleges and universities possess: papers, photos, all manner of artifacts. The wealth gap is evident. Lacking the capital of their White counterparts, Black institutions, even with the most careful of hand
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
His farewell to a species turning from animal into data.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
1993: A Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauders / Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Classic hip-hop is a sentence. And if the beginning of the sentence is me purchasing Eric B. and Rakim’s Paid in Full at Crazy Eddie’s in 1987, then these two records are the end of the sentence. A year before them, Dr. Dre’s The Chronic had changed every
... See moreAhmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Our natural reaction is to seek out culture that embraces