http://www.discogs.com/Blackface-Cornbread-Session/release/518233 Label: Backstage Records (2) Catalog#: BSR-3012 Format: Vinyl, 12″ Country: US Released: 1996 Genre: Hip Hop Style: Conscious Tracklist: A1 Cornbread (Club) Producer – Hugo Boss (2) A2 Cornbread (Instrumental) Producer – Hugo Boss (2) ...
The Museum of Chinese in America sits on a quiet stretch of Centre St. fringing Soho and Chinatown, and initially I mistake its glossy front for another boutique, except the two nattering men in uniform outside seem incongruous on an empty street. “Is this the…?” I’m still confused by the museum’s n ...
For some odd reason, blackface seems to be popping up everywhere - from the campus of Northwestern to variety s hows in Australia. It has even permeated the sports world. On Halloween, Chicago Blackhawks Adam Burish and Patrick Sharp painted their bodies brown to perfect their respective Scottie Pip ...
"If I was on the Blackfaces, we'd be undefeated right now!" Sounds pretty bad, doesn’t it? The Supreme Court, not wanting to get involved in matters of right and wrong, opted not to hear the case of the Native American activists that find the name Washington Redskins offensive. Maybe the justices ar ...
“Life’s hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.”- John Wayne Mark of stupidity: Burglary suspects drew masks and beards on their faces using permanent marker pen There was little to disguise what these two had been up to moments before police pulled them over. Would-be burglars Matthew McNelly an ...
I have serious gear envy sometimes. Here are a few amplifiers I’ve been crushing on lately… Last week I went to practice with a new band. The guitar player and drummer have a practice space out in Long Island, which is great because it’s not one of those pay-per-hour places that plague the boroughs ...
Matthew Guerrieri of the Boston Globe argues that the truly original thing about the 1979 hit rap single “Rapper’s Delight” is the fact that it doesn’t have a chorus, that staple of the pop-song form since, he says, the 1840’s, when the blackface group Christy’s Minstrels popularized the chorus. I’m ...
Apology sought after U of T students cause uproar with blackface for Halloween ( Globe & Mail): Five students dressed as members of the Jamaican bobsled team received costume award A University of Toronto student group is demanding public apologies from organizers of a Halloween party after particip ...
