This a photo essay showing connections between Africans both on the continent and the diaspora.
Incisions with Precision Presents: 16 on Death Row by Tupac Shakur 16 On Death Row is one of Tupac’s most poignant tales of desperation of life that leads to crime and the experience of the teenager who spends his formative years growing into a hardened heartless criminal. Click image for entire article. Below you can ...
Notorious B.I.G.: Modern Day Griot by Khalif ‘Ras’ Williams What is a Griot? A griot (English pronunciation: /ˈɡri.oʊ/, French pronunciation: [ɡʁi.o], with a silent t) or jeli (djeli or djéli in French spelling) is a West African poet, praise singer, and wandering musician, considered a repository of oral tradition. As such, they are sometimes also ...
Building to Destroy, Destroying to Build: How Hip Hop Creates Non Domesticated Thinkers by Khalif ‘Ras’ Williams This piece brings home the overstanding that Hip Hop as a culture that has always pushed the boundaries as far as innovation and cultural development in a way of life that has created more societal change in a ...
Cooperative Intelligence: Important Spiritual Lessons from a ‘Simple’ Organism by Khalif ‘Ras’ Williams The depth and profound spiritual insight our ancestors garnered from the smallest and seemingly most insignificant things gave humans the most profound spiritual and scientific wisdom EVER created by man! To find out what I am speaking of click the image for ...
Long Live the Ka and Ba of Dr Van Sertima. May he Rest In Power!!! Many may ask what the illustrious Dr. Ivan Van Sertima has to do with the Hip Hop generation. The answer is quite a bit but in order to understand the connection, one must know the history surrounding the transformation of black youth that Dr. Van Sertima was trying to address.
Killing in the Name of Another’s God by Khalif ‘Ras’ Williams Historically everywhere Colonizers have set up shop as conquerors and enslavers of African people they always first brought religion. As the Letter written by King Leopold to his Xtian Missionaries he dispatched to the Congo in 1883 which I dub the true and original ...