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FrontlineNews - NBUF Youth BTM

My man Marcus Brown spits fire in his own right. Outside his own spoken word exposition, he puts in Work with creative and conscious folks nationwide. In Kansas City, he's known for exemplifying and making a way for young people to express themselves. It's in that context under the umbrella of the Dubois Learning Center that I've had the pleasure of making his acquaintence. Marcus put together a tight 12 minute podcast that beautifully demonstrates the power we can tap when we help our children BE THE MEDIA (BTM). This is the type of audio that will become a staple of the Frontline Media Network, a podcast Internet Radio show that will soon begin regular production at the Dubois Learning Center. I think this is one you'll really enjoy! Here's the audio file.

Vision Circle Podcast with Lynne d Johnson

Lynne d Johnson is the subject of our latest podcast.

Craig Nulan: Urban Spelunker

This week's Vision Circle Podcast features an interview with our own Craig Nulan. Check it.

Mass Incarceration and the Black Elite

The quantum aether was listening and responded in its own sublimely subliminal way. Just now kicking the dopamine can with Cobb about Roberts and the issue I believe his nomination underscores - when what should waft into my inbox but this sweet little tidbit from the Black Commentator.

Mass Incarceration and the Black Elite

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Dead Prez on the State of HipHop

This is the last of the recordings from the 26th annual National Black United Front convention held in Kansas City July 14th-16th. Marcus Brown led a panel discussion which included Dead Prez speaking very candidly about the current state of black cultural production and black youth culture in its media and $$$ dominating embodiment as commercialized RaP {Rhyming and Posing}. About 45 minutes of that panel discussion can be heard on this 16 bit (slightly tinny) 5 megabyte file.

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Mastery Culture vs. Corporate Civilization

It was my privilege to interview Dr. Oba T'Shaka on June 16th 2005 at the National Black United Front (NBUF) annual convention held in Kansas City Missouri. Dr. T'Shaka is the Vice Chairman of NBUF, full professor at San Francisco State University, and former chairman of the Black Studies Program. I caught up with Dr. T'Shaka over the lunch hour, and we had to conclude after about 35 minutes - a discussion that I believe could have gone on much, much longer. Also in the discussion is Mr. Leon Dixon, founder and chairman of the Dubois Learning Center. Rooted in traditional afro-spiritual culture, and possessing a scholar/practitioner's deep knowledge thereof, Dr. T'Shaka confines this time constrained discussion to pragmatic cultural themes readily accessible to any audience.

Operational Unity and Grassroots Organizing

Was the theme of the 26th Annual National Convention of The National Black United Front [NBUF] held July 14th-16th in Kansas City Missouri. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered the keynote address at the Opening Ceremony and Mass Rally Thursday night. FOI took the batteries out of my DVR, otherwise you'd be listening to the Brother Minister's riveting oration. Suffice it to say every black politico and church leader in the greater metropolitan sprawl was in attendance, and Buck O'Neil sat up in the deacon's row right next to Farrakhan.

Less exhilirating - but more informative - are the opening remarks from the leadership of NBUF at the convention's opening session the following morning.

Vision Circle Podcast #2

The second part of our podcast on the Fryer-Torelli article can be found here.

Vision Circle Podcast pt. 1 (Acting White)

A few of us through the web have been thinking about podcasting some of our conversations. To an extent this is part of a larger brand building exercise. It's also an attempt to put voices to our writings. And it's part of a much larger effort to build networks of trust, and to build a new grassroots media initiative. let us know what you think. there's more to come.

Vision Circle Podcast #1.