07 February 2002
Right till the end of January, Dita Sari, an Indonesian in her late twenties, was preparing to fly from her home near Jakarta, Indonesia, to Salt Lake City. She would bask Feb. 7 in the admiration of assorted do-gooders and celebrities...
04 February 2002
There has always been a fundamental struggle for the "soul" of hip hop culture, represented by the deep tension between politically-conscious and "positivity" rap artists versus the powerful and reactionary impulses toward misogyny,...
03 February 2002
The politics of hip hop culture took an important step forward recently with the Russell Simmons-founded Hip Hop Summit Action Network's hosting of the historic West Coast Hip-Hop Summit. Organized by Summit President Minister Benjamin...
30 January 2002
Throwing the book at people is nothing new, but in our post 9/11 world, the screws are tightening. Take San Francisco, whose district attorney, Terence "Kayo" Hallinan, has the reputation of being an unusually progressive...
23 January 2002
Everywhere we look, it's Enron, in the biggest tumult over corporate criminality since the looting of the S&Ls in the 1980s. Enron will be on the menu for months, if not years. Congress launches into at least eight separate...
20 January 2002
The disjuncture these days between reality and what one reads in the press here is pretty much absolute. The other day I opened up the San Francisco Chronicle and found a piece hailing what the writer described as something most...

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