Rappers often publicize the fact that they sleep around, but rarely mention using protection.
Many women and girls are vulnerable to HIV because of the high-risk behavior of others. This year’s World AIDS Campaign, with the strapline ‘Have you heard me today?,’ seeks to raise awareness about, and help address, the many issues affecting women and girls around HIV and AIDS.
Setting: Norfolk State University, Spartan Station
Assembling her Divine Tectonic comrades around her, Suebeephly, whose government name is Suzzette Rink, tries to salvage an open mic without the DJ. With the atmosphere in the room thick with pessimism over budget cuts and MIA DJ’s, Suebeephly refuses to cancel the Norfolk State University’s weekly open mic.
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This past summer I attended the Black August 2003 Celebration in New York. Truly, an ambitious event, the evening consisted of a blend of spoken word, social and political history lessons and hot performances by various hip-hop and R&B artists like Goapele, Keith Murray, Talib Kweli and Erykah Badu. While there were Black [...]
Gil Scott Heron said it himself: “The revolution will not be televised.”
Do you know why? The revolution will not happen, that’s why. We talk about it, we rhyme about it, we complain about the government. We wear Che Guevarra shirts, boycott Nike, go to open mics and flip poems about it; but it [...]
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