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Jasiri X--Austinethn (talk) 05:55, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Background: Jasiri X first burst on the National and International Hip-Hop scene with the powerful hit song Free The Jena 6 which was played on more than 100 radio stations and was named Hip-hop Political Song of the Year. His debut album, American History X, was named Album of the Year at the Pittsburgh Hip-Hop Awards. A six time Pittsburgh Hip-Hop Award winner, Jasiri recently became the first Hip-Hop artist to received the coveted August Wilson Center for African American Culture Fellowship. A founding member of the anti-violence group One Hood, Jasiri started the 1Hood Media Academy to teach young African-American boys how to analyze and create media for themselves. He is the creative force and artist behind the ground breaking internet news series, This Week with Jasiri X, which has garnered critical acclaim, thousands of subscribers, and millions of internet views. From the controversial viral video What if the Tea Party was Black?, to the hard hitting hilarity of Republican Woman…stay away from me, Jasiri X cleverly uses Hip-Hop to provide social commentary on a variety of issues. His videos have been featured on websites as diverse as Allhiphop.com and The Huffington Post and Jasiri has been a guest on BET Rap City, The Michael Baisden Show, Free Speech TV, Left of Black, and Russia Today. Jasiri has performed from New York City to Berlin, Germany and various cities in between, including recently in front of 30,000 at the Our Communities Our Jobs Rally in Los Angeles. He has toured colleges and universities across the country presenting his innovative workshop, How to Succeed in Hip-Hop Without Selling Your Soul, and is working on a book of the same name. He also blogs for Jack and Jill Politics, Daveyd.com, and The Black Youth Project. Jasiri X signed a record deal with Wandering Worx Entertainment and has recently released his album, Ascension with acclaimed producer Rel!g!on.

Early Life: Jasiri Oronde Smith is a Chicago native who grew up in a gang-ridden neighborhood there before moving with his mom to Monroeville in the '80s and graduating from Gateway High School at 16. He started college with the intention of being a lawyer, first at the University of Maryland, and then at the University of Pittsburgh, but dropped out.

He started doing spoken word performances, and then, inspired by Louis Farrakhan, he joined Nation of Islam and became a social activist working out of a mosque in Wilkinsburg. "

Content: Jasiri X, notably makes hip-hop songs with direct, blunt, social commentary that tackles issues head on. This can be reflected in his song titles, that pull no punches and are quite controversial. Some of his most notable songs to date have been: "New Nat Turners" "Trayvon" and more, that directly deal with controversial issues dealing with race, particularly the status of the black man in America. He is known to spread the "conscious" brand of hip-hop, that focuses on political, intellectual issues, more so than a lot of the glamour, glitz, guns and drugs that mainstream hip-hop at times, tends to glorify. His account description on twitter, which is very reflective of what he achieves through his art, is: "freeing minds, one rhyme at a time".

Joan Morgan

Background

Joan Morgan was born in Jamaica and raised in the South Bronx. A graduate of Wesleyan University, she has taught at the New School, Duke University, and Vanderbilt University.

Career

Joan Morgan began a career in journalism as a freelance writer for The Village Voice. The response to her first article, “The Pro-Rape Culture” about the Central Park jogger, “established Morgan’s reputation as a black-feminist writer who was unafraid of tacking the most highly charged topics.” A few years later, Morgan won an Excellence Merit Media Award from the National Woman’s Political Caucus for her coverage of the rape trial of Mike Tyson. Morgan went on to become an Executive Editor of Essence Magazine, and has written for Spin, Vibe, and GIANT. She recently founded her own body butter company, Emily Jayne. In 2013, Morgan did an interview with Parlour Magazine, published on the web discussing black sex, identity and the politics of pleasure, in which she discussed many things including how figures like Beyonce, and shows like Scandal play into this conversation.

Morgan is especially known for her work in the field of “hip-hop feminism,” a term she coined in her 1999 book, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost. She has appeared on MTV, BET, VH-1, and CNN to speak about the intersection of hip-hop and gender, and conducted a 12-city tour titled “Does Hip-Hop Hate Women,” which brought national attention to the growing misogyny, sexism and homophobia in hip-hop culture. Through her writing and appearances Morgan has established herself as “one of the most original, perceptive and engaging young social commentators in America today. Joan Morgan provides commentary, and a look into her life and career on her personal twitter page: twitter.com/milfinainteasy. She describes herself as "Writer. Woman. Fearless. Nose. Blender and Creator of Emily Jayne Co.

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost

Joan Morgan's most famous work is found in her 1999 book: "When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost." An amazon.com review describes the novel as a: "decidedly intimate look into the life of the modern black woman: a complex world where feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men; where women who treasure their independence often prefer men who pick up the tab; where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds black women, who long for marriage, that traditional nuclear families are a reality for less than 40 percent of the African-American population; and where black women are forced to make sense of a world where "truth is no longer black and white but subtle, intriguing shades of gray." Morgan ushers in a voice that, like hiphop - the cultural movement that defines her generation - samples and layers many voices, and injects its sensibilities into the old and flips it into something new, provocative, and powerful." Morgan offers a take on duality and inherent hypocrisies in being a feminist woman, who supports black male-centric movements like Farrakhan's Million Man March, and also hip-hop which she argues has many male-centric elements. She explores the dynamic of maintaining her feminism, while also enjoying male, particularly black male culture, and discusses balancing feminism while also benefitting from some parts of the gendered nature of society. She asks herself questions like "Can you be a good feminist and admit out loud that there are things that you kinda dig about patriarchy?" and "Suppose you don't want to pay for your own dinner, hold the door open, fix things, move furniture, or get intimate with whatever's under the hood of a car"? She cites hip-hop artists like R. Kelly, Jodeci, Lil' Kim, Queen Latifah and as the vehicles through which she makes her point about some of the dualities that come with feminism.

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Rankersbo (talk) 08:10, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Joan Morgan

Background

Joan Morgan was born in Jamaica and raised in the South Bronx. A graduate of Wesleyan University, she has taught at the New School, Duke University, and Vanderbilt University.

Career

Joan Morgan began a career in journalism as a freelance writer for The Village Voice. The response to her first article, “The Pro-Rape Culture” about the Central Park jogger, “established Morgan’s reputation as a black-feminist writer who was unafraid of tacking the most highly charged topics.” A few years later, Morgan won an Excellence Merit Media Award from the National Woman’s Political Caucus for her coverage of the rape trial of Mike Tyson. Morgan went on to become an Executive Editor of Essence Magazine, and has written for Spin, Vibe, and GIANT. She recently founded her own body butter company, Emily Jayne. In 2013, Morgan did an interview with Parlour Magazine, published on the web discussing black sex, identity and the politics of pleasure, in which she discussed many things including how figures like Beyonce, and shows like Scandal play into this conversation.

Morgan is especially known for her work in the field of “hip-hop feminism,” a term she coined in her 1999 book, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost. She has appeared on MTV, BET, VH-1, and CNN to speak about the intersection of hip-hop and gender, and conducted a 12-city tour titled “Does Hip-Hop Hate Women,” which brought national attention to the growing misogyny, sexism and homophobia in hip-hop culture. Through her writing and appearances Morgan has established herself as “one of the most original, perceptive and engaging young social commentators in America today. Joan Morgan provides commentary, and a look into her life and career on her personal twitter page: twitter.com/milfinainteasy. She describes herself as "Writer. Woman. Fearless. Nose. Blender and Creator of Emily Jayne Co.

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost

Joan Morgan's most famous work is found in her 1999 book: "When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost." An amazon.com review describes the novel as a: "decidedly intimate look into the life of the modern black woman: a complex world where feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men; where women who treasure their independence often prefer men who pick up the tab; where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds black women, who long for marriage, that traditional nuclear families are a reality for less than 40 percent of the African-American population; and where black women are forced to make sense of a world where "truth is no longer black and white but subtle, intriguing shades of gray." Morgan ushers in a voice that, like hiphop - the cultural movement that defines her generation - samples and layers many voices, and injects its sensibilities into the old and flips it into something new, provocative, and powerful." Morgan offers a take on duality and inherent hypocrisies in being a feminist woman, who supports black male-centric movements like Farrakhan's Million Man March, and also hip-hop which she argues has many male-centric elements. She explores the dynamic of maintaining her feminism, while also enjoying male, particularly black male culture, and discusses balancing feminism while also benefitting from some parts of the gendered nature of society. She asks herself questions like "Can you be a good feminist and admit out loud that there are things that you kinda dig about patriarchy?" and "Suppose you don't want to pay for your own dinner, hold the door open, fix things, move furniture, or get intimate with whatever's under the hood of a car"? She cites hip-hop artists like R. Kelly, Jodeci, Lil' Kim, Queen Latifah and as the vehicles through which she makes her point about some of the dualities that come with feminism.

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