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Malcolm X

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Brother Ali: My fans are kicking the sh*t out of me over Trayvon Martin

    Note: Brother Ali is a Minneapolis rapper signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment. His latest album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color, will be released in August. Here are portions of an interview following the One Million Hoodies March for Trayvon Martin held March 29 at the University of Minn ... More >>

  • Music

    January 18, 2012

    Twin Cities Hip-Hop Awards, Father You See Queen, and more

    Note: Brother Ali is a Minneapolis rapper signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment. His latest album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color, will be released in August. Here are portions of an interview following the One Million Hoodies March for Trayvon Martin held March 29 at the University of Minn ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 18, 2012

    Garland Jeffreys

    Note: Brother Ali is a Minneapolis rapper signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment. His latest album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color, will be released in August. Here are portions of an interview following the One Million Hoodies March for Trayvon Martin held March 29 at the University of Minn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Brother Ali wants dropouts back in school [VIDEO]

    Brother Ali wants you to crack the books​How do you persuade kids who've dropped off the Minneapolis school district's radar to get back to class? Enlist the help of a Rhymesayers hip-hopper they're probably listening to on their iPods instead of answering the school bell. Brother Ali cut thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Public Enemy honor Brother Ali in new video

    ​In preparation for their forthcoming box set (BRING THE NOISE, HITS, VIDS, and DOC BOX: GREATEST SITES AND SOUNDS), Public Enemy dropped a new video for "Say it Like it Really Is" this morning, and it includes snapshots of inspirational public figures, activists, and musicians ranging from Malcol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Bassgasm 2 at First Avenue, 7/23/10

    Photos by Denis Jeong Plaster​Bassgasm 2July 23rd, 2010First AvenueYou could feel it before you walked through the door.  The low end was turned up as far as it would go, reverberating through the black brick of First Ave, making the concrete tremble beneath the feet of all the boys and girls ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    The Mayhem Poets perform slam poetry tomorrow night

    Check out these guys out while they're in town.

  • Articles

    September 16, 2009

    Talk of the Stacks: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

    Check out these guys out while they're in town.

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Brother Ali releases promo videos for "Good Lord"

    New videos have surfaced in anticipation of a new single by Brother Ali.

  • News

    September 17, 2008

    Mayor to Arrested Journalists: Drop Dead

    Suddenly, the mayor wants nothing to do with hosting the RNC

  • Calendar

    January 16, 2008

    The Meeting

    Suddenly, the mayor wants nothing to do with hosting the RNC

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2007

    Tubby Smith Was Not Born in A Barn

    Suddenly, the mayor wants nothing to do with hosting the RNC

  • Music

    September 26, 2007

    Robber Barons

    Kanye Bests 50 Cent, But Is Either Album a Winner?

  • Music

    August 1, 2007

    Music Is (Still) the Weapon

    Femi Kuti makes Afrobeat for today's world

  • Unknown

    July 11, 2007

    Concert Highlights for the Week of July 11 - July 17

    Femi Kuti makes Afrobeat for today's world

  • News

    November 29, 2006

    The Shelf Life of Socialism

    Inside a Leninist bookstore in West St. Paul, a familiar refrain: What is to be done?

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2006

    Tuesday audio: James Baldwin and Malcolm X

    Inside a Leninist bookstore in West St. Paul, a familiar refrain: What is to be done?

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2006

    4/25: Morning Communique

    Inside a Leninist bookstore in West St. Paul, a familiar refrain: What is to be done?

  • Columns

    March 30, 2005

    Free Will Astrology

    Inside a Leninist bookstore in West St. Paul, a familiar refrain: What is to be done?

  • Columns

    December 8, 2004

    Shiver Me Timbers

    A disquisition on horripilation, cutis anserine, gooseflesh, and goose bumps

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2004

    This is not my beautiful house

    A disquisition on horripilation, cutis anserine, gooseflesh, and goose bumps

  • Columns

    November 19, 2003

    Mooning at the Howl

    We used to be patient Wolves fans, but things have changed.

  • News

    May 7, 2003

    Dog Bites Man

    Why did an MPD officer let a K-9 unit dog savage a man who already surrendered?

  • Movies

    August 28, 2002

    The Red and The Black

    Chris Marker dissects the corpse of the Sixties revolutions

  • Movies

    December 19, 2001

    Mann vs. Machine

    Chris Marker dissects the corpse of the Sixties revolutions

  • Books

    December 6, 2000

    Race for Last

    In One Drop of Blood,writer Scott L. Malcomson examines the destructive legacy of racial designations

  • Music

    September 27, 2000

    The Candidate

    Two years after topping polls as a live local favorite, Mason Jennings recasts his tunes in a political key

  • Movies

    July 19, 2000

    Geek Squad

    X-Men puts its superhero "muties" in charge of flattering the core audience

  • Arts

    January 5, 2000

    Newton's Laws

    A one-man show captures the complications Huey P. Newton faced in trying to walk like a Panther

  • Music

    August 25, 1999

    Walk Like a Panther

    Baritone saxophonist Fred Ho makes music for the revolution.

  • Music

    January 27, 1999

    Shades of Bey

    At age 59 jazz singer Andy Bey is moving from the fringes to the mainstream and making the best music of his strange career

  • News

    October 21, 1998

    Because They Can

    Six minor-party contenders for governor promise to bring back the primo dime-bag, turn the governor's mansion into a flophouse, tax water, get big brother out of your bedroom, ditch the nukes, and reveal the secrets of gravity-defying hair.

  • Movies

    June 24, 1998

    Scarlett Fever

    Six minor-party contenders for governor promise to bring back the primo dime-bag, turn the governor's mansion into a flophouse, tax water, get big brother out of your bedroom, ditch the nukes, and reveal the secrets of gravity-defying hair.

  • Books

    May 27, 1998

    Along Comes Jones

    Todd Jones was tapped as only a temporary fill-in, but he's at the top of a very short list to replace U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug

  • Movies

    April 29, 1998

    Products of the 'Hood

    Face/Off: Denzel Washington and Ray Allen in Spike Lee's He Got Game

  • Books

    March 18, 1998

    Firestarter

    Face/Off: Denzel Washington and Ray Allen in Spike Lee's He Got Game

  • Books

    March 4, 1998

    William L. Van Deburg: Black Camelot

    Face/Off: Denzel Washington and Ray Allen in Spike Lee's He Got Game

  • Arts

    February 25, 1998

    Play Against Type

    Dancing in the Street: A rarely produced play by Lorraine Hansberry shows the small man behind the most principled activist in the world.

  • Movies

    November 19, 1997

    Making It Plain

    Etched in Memory: 4 Little Girls.

  • Books

    September 17, 1997

    Tupac Shakur

    Etched in Memory: 4 Little Girls.

  • Feature

    August 6, 1997

    MUSIC: Mike Ladd

    Etched in Memory: 4 Little Girls.

  • Restaurants

    July 30, 1997

    On Wings and a Prayer

    Etched in Memory: 4 Little Girls.

  • Movies

    June 4, 1997

    alt.film.critic

    Etched in Memory: 4 Little Girls.

  • Feature

    May 21, 1997

    Internet, Book, Video, Music

    Art Crimes, Susan Welch, Amiri Baraka, Edward Humes, Garry Wills, The Wife, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, Sweet Nothing, Boz Scaggs, dEUS

  • Books

    February 17, 1997

    The Women by Hilton Als

    Art Crimes, Susan Welch, Amiri Baraka, Edward Humes, Garry Wills, The Wife, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, Sweet Nothing, Boz Scaggs, dEUS

  • Arts

    January 22, 1997

    Dreams Endured

    Art Crimes, Susan Welch, Amiri Baraka, Edward Humes, Garry Wills, The Wife, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, Sweet Nothing, Boz Scaggs, dEUS

  • Movies

    October 30, 1996

    History and Mystery

    Art Crimes, Susan Welch, Amiri Baraka, Edward Humes, Garry Wills, The Wife, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, Sweet Nothing, Boz Scaggs, dEUS

  • Movies

    October 23, 1996

    All Aboard

    Art Crimes, Susan Welch, Amiri Baraka, Edward Humes, Garry Wills, The Wife, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, Sweet Nothing, Boz Scaggs, dEUS

  • Art

    July 31, 1996

    Tongue Untied

    Poet Paul Beatty makes polyglot Americana with his debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle.

  • News

    March 6, 1996

    The Trials of David Lillehaug

    In the wake of Najarian and Shabazz, the U.S. attorney and former DFL prodigy finds his once-bright political future in question.

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