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Can producing stories and developing platforms to support people who have been harmed by multiple, intersecting systems heal those systems? In Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture (MIT Press, 2025), Aymar Jèan Escoffery argues that this is exact ...  Show more

When Hollywood director Rian Johnson started making Wake Up Dead Man, the new Knives Out mystery (a movie you can watch on Netflix), he needed some help. His uncle and aunt in Denver connected him with their pastor in Denver, Father Scott Bailey, who became an advisor to the proj ...  Show more

Hamamoto on YouTube: / @professorhamamoto Watch Lionel on Diddy verdict: https://youtube.com/live/KR85dKR3NaoWatch part 6 here: https://youtube.com/live/DViShfvP9yEWatch part 5 here: https://youtube.com/live/TaF8EMyS4V4Watch Prof Hamamoto Part 4 https://youtube.com/live/TkUr4CanA ...  Show more

In 1985, Greg Mack, a DJ working for Los Angeles radio station KDAY, played a song that sounded like nothing else on West Coast airwaves: Toddy Tee’s “The Batteram,” a hip hop track that reflected the experiences of a young man growing up in 1980s Compton. The song tells about th ...  Show more

On the latest episode of ALL THE SMOKE, one of the most revered figures in rap since his early-'90s debut, DJ Quik, sits down with Matt and Stak to reflect on his career. The legendary producer and rapper discusses how he broke onto the musical scene, and shares epic stories from ...  Show more

Hamamoto on YouTube: / @professorhamamoto Watch part 5 here: https://youtube.com/live/TaF8EMyS4V4Watch Prof Hamamoto Part 4 https://youtube.com/live/TkUr4CanA_kWatch Prof Hamamoto Part 3 https://youtube.com/live/qUHdKtabgNoProf. Darrell Hamamoto, who is an American writer, academ ...  Show more