JOURNALISM FROM ROSA CLEMENTE
Speaking Truth To Power
Why President Elect Barack Obama is Not the First Hip Hop President
"Each generation out of relative obscurity, must discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it." - Frantz Fanon It has been 45 days since the Hip Hop generation helped usher in the first Black male President of the United States of America. Since that historic night,...
Vote Your Values: An Interview with Rosa Clemente
Interview by Adele Nieves Rosa Clemente is one of the most prominent activists of our generation. She is a nationally renowned speaker, writer, and journalist – one of the most important independent journalists covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – and in 2001...
Media: Who is Not Progressive
Rosa Clemente Interviewed by Socialist Appeal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syY5t8wO2Dk John Peterson, editor of Socialist Appeal, interviews Rosa Clemente, vice presidential candidate of the Power to the People Campaign, after the protests of the RNC in St. Paul, MN.
Heavy Police Presence at the Republican National Convention
Eyewitness: The Sean Bell Verdict
[highlight] * Policemen are institutionalized to fear Black men * Every day, I fear that my husband, a Black man won't come home because of NYPD * We need a national movement against police brutality [/highlight] A few hours after three New York City police...
All Eyes on Her
The Source sexual harassment trial vindicates Kim Osorio to the tune of $15.5 million. Interview by Rosa Clemente On October 24, Kimberly Osorio, The Source's editor in chief from 2002 to 2005, won $15.5 million in a workplace lawsuit against the hip-hop monthly....
What Does Jesus Look Like?
I was raised in the Catholic Church. From the moment I was placed under this religious institution, I was put in a situation where my savior would never look like me. For me Jesus Christ was a white men with blond hair and blue eyes. Much of my high-school years were...
Rockefeller’s Rocky Road
A hip hop activist argues that the proposed revisions to New York's draconian drug laws don't come close to constituting meaningful reform. [blockquote] "We should be ashamed of ourselves. Rockefeller drug reform – ha! – I don't think so." – State Sen. Thomas Duane...
Walk Like A Warrior: Interview with Dead Prez
Dead Prez blazed into hip hop in 1998 with the politically-charged single, “It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop.” Their Let’s Get Free album spoke about Black self-determination in a way no one else was doing at the time, in hip hop or out. They were signed to Loud Records, but...