Poetry
Hip-Hop: Rhyming & Reasoning Justice
There Is a Reason to the Rhyme Toward the end of 2011, a new blog hit the web. Its name: Rhymes and Reasons. Its purpose: to provide a series of interviews with hip-hop heads who discuss their lives in the context of … Continue reading
Are You Down for the Cause or Because?
Appreciating Hip-Hop’s Justice Roots By Edward Vogel, co-creator of “Rhymes and Reasons” Hip-hop has become one of the biggest cultural phenomena of the last thirty years but it is often misunderstood, especially by people committed to social justice. How can … Continue reading
Explicit Content: It’s the Form That Counts
Debating So-Called “Conscious Hip-Hop” By Eric Roberts, co-creator of “Rhymes and Reasons” Hip-hop’s detractors, even casual listeners, forget that rapping is an artform, with formal considerations like any other. In the battle for airtime, so-called “conscious hip-hop” cannot use … Continue reading
All About US & Other Poems (video)
Unbound is proud to bring you the spoken word of Ariana Salazar-Newton, a third generation Mexican-American and seminary student, talking about race, gender, sexuality, and class. All About US: An Immigration Poem During Economic Crisis Read Ariana’s poem originally published … Continue reading
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