San Francisco Chronicle
We Are The Post Hip-Hop Generation
by M.K. ASANTE, JR.

The "hip-hop generation," a tag customarily attached to blacks born after the civil-rights movement, may have once captured the essence of the rebellious, politically discontent twenty-somethings of the 1980s and '90s, but not today...

The Tampa Tribune
Gulf Coast Relives Epic Tragedy
by M.K. ASANTE, JR.

If the essence of God can be seen in the fury of the hurricane, whose essence is revealed in the response to the hurricane? The storm that battered the Gulf Coast last week bears a striking resemblance to the hurricane and subsequent flood depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God...

USA Today
Enough disrespect: Return rap to it's artistic origins
by M.K. ASANTE, JR.

I love rap, but it's hard to defend this s—-," confessed Chris Rock before a hysterical audience in Washington, D.C., in his most recent HBO comedy special Never Scared. Rock's statement was comical not simply because of his brash delivery, but also because it adhered to the stand-up-comedy adage: Only the truth is funny...