Jimmy Fallon X Brian Williams X The Roots = Slow Jam The News
Black Thought joins Fallon and Brian Will-I-Ams in a little ditty about Wisconsin! Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying!!
Black Thought joins Fallon and Brian Will-I-Ams in a little ditty about Wisconsin! Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying!!
Check out The Nation’s John Nichols live blogging from Madison. He is a righteous dude. And if you don’t know what’s going on in Wisconsin’s capital, please, please, starting reading the news.
Check it out! A group of Libyan exiles called Khalas has released a mixtape of the hip hop music that provided the soundtrack to the protests in Tunisia and Egypt. You can listen to an interview with Khalas co-founder Abdulla Darra here and listen to the mixtape here!
Over the last several weeks, I’ve seen a number of articles and Facebook status updates asking why our nation’s youth aren’t in the streets protesting corruption in the same way that our generational counterparts are in Egypt. After all, the dedication that we are seeing broadcast live on the Internet highlights how committed our young African counterparts are to their futures.
But I don’t think it’s healthy to compare our generation’s struggles here in the United States with those in Egypt. While Color Lines highlights how similar the socio-economic realities of young Egyptians are compared to that of young people of color, specifically young blacks, I think we are denying our own movement history if we go too far with the comparison.
More after the jump.
Guess this is in Spain. Worldstar definitely finds the craziest videos.
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