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DJ Lindsey & DJ Myles welcome the golden girl home and we show love with some tees!
October 14, 2008 at 1:56 am / No comments / View M.J.'s Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
It’s hella late here, or early (depending on who you ask, I suppose). If you were to ask me right now, I’d say my back aches, my stomach is growling and my eyes burn. But none of that is going to deter me from posting right now. It’s just that I happened across something I had almost forgotten, and I want to make sure to share this before memory fails once again.
At the very end of 2007 Amnesty International (France) released a new public service campaign- As a whole it was nothing short of compelling. Still pretty profound in concept… the folks responsible are due some negro nods for having the gaul to say something important, in an emphatic way. It’s inspiring to see people who speak plainly and are less concerned with offending you and more concerned about whether you’ve receive the message they aim to deliver. So… many a negro nod goes out to:
TBWA\PARIS, Boulogne-Billancourt
Creative Director: Erik Vervroegen
Art Directors: Ingrid Varetz, Javier Rodriguez
Writers: Daniel Perez, Veronique Sels
Photographer: Michael Lewis
Retoucher: Jean-Pilippe Camus
October 10, 2008 at 5:49 am / One comment / View M.J.'s Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
While cruising mypsace, I found a couple new things on Afrikan Boy’s myspace page that I thought were worth sharing. AB has been Reppin’ hard! Can’t be mad at all.
October 9, 2008 at 2:09 pm / One comment / View M.J.'s Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
I saw both their latest videos for the first time today. Gotta say… Janelle’s won by a lot. Kanye’s wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t as cohesive. There were a few things actually, but none worth discussing. But just incase you haven’t seen Janelle’s, enjoy!
October 8, 2008 at 11:17 pm / No comments / View M.J.'s Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
October 8, 2008 at 7:29 pm / One comment / View M.J.'s Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
The Mau Mau were far into the future with their fashion sense. My favortie dude is the man in the back with the glasses, pure style, pure style.
October 7, 2008 at 11:48 am / No comments / View ¥ego $.V.'s Profile /
So the past couple days I’ve been toiling away with recoding things. Improvements you probably won’t even notice and features that you won’t see until the relaunch of the site. None the less… I’ve been working hard.
A couple of the new functions I’m excited about… email blasts and syndication!
Since a number of our colony members have their own blogs, we’ll be sourcing in some of their posts, eliminating the need for them to post in two places about the same thing.
But what’s better is, when we get a must read post… you’re gonna get an email about it!! : P
October 4, 2008 at 1:04 pm / No comments / View M.J.'s Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
So I’m a few days late on hearing this news, as I’ve been mostly watching the stock market and looking forward to the vice presidential debates. But being an honest to god child of hip hop, I found this story to be just as new worthy…
Apparently last week community leaders watch hopelessly as the courts ruled to allow the sale of 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in the South Bronx to real estate developer, Mark Karasick, which puts the future of the 100 families residing in the building, in jeopardy. This, even after tenants partnered with housing advocates filed a lawsuit in the State Supreme Court in an attempt to block the sale aaaand assembled a $10 million offer for the building, which doubles the $5 Million mortgage that needs to be paid for the current owners to withdraw the building from the city’s Mitchell-Lama moderate housing program.
In march of this year, the first attempt at the sale of this property was rejected when the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development deemed that the roughly $7.5 million sale price “significantly exceeded the building’s assessed value”, and was “not sustainable.” At the moment, no one seems to be sure which bank is financing the sale of the property, and are all wondering would finance this project at such an inflated price and during such pressing financial times. Housing advocates were actually hopeful that the recent financial woes on Wall Street would prevent the deal from holding up.
What’s extra-speacially heartbreaking here is that 1520 Sedgwick is more or less the birth place of Hip Hop. So it seems a shame to know to know that the rec center in the front of the building, where DJ Kool Herc first learned to work his two turntables, happens to also be the same room from which Senator Charles E. Schumer delivered the news conference when the sale was first rejected in march.
Shout goes out to The New York Times’ blog for covering the story so well. You can check it at length here. While you’re there you should also check this story about bronx area photographer Lisa Kahane who, much like Jamal Shabazz, played an integral role in documenting life & times in the Bronx, during the early 80s. Get smart.
October 2, 2008 at 4:24 pm / One comment / View M.J.'s Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
Sun Ra – Space Is The Place (Excerpt)
Ain’t nothing changed. It’s still the place.
October 1, 2008 at 1:03 pm / No comments / View je's Profile /
President Obama said Friday that he was ”surprised and deeply humbled” by the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The committee said it ho…
Kenyan authorities have begun to move residents out of Africa’s largest slum – the Kibera settlement in Nairobi. Officials expect to take from two to five years to clear the slum, which…
An undercover investigation has found that up to two gorillas are killed and sold as bushmeat each week in Kouilou, a region of the Republic of Congo.
It seems that the new 3.1 iPhone OS update kills both tethering hacks and the ultrasn0w unlock hack. Be especially careful since there might be no way to undo the iPhone update – update and b…
Former executive editor of music at BET.com, Andreas Hale hit “send” on an explosive e-mail that sheds light on some of the inner workings (and malfunctions) of the once revered company.
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