Today in gentrification: Melbourne hipsters pay tribute to a dead black artist by opening a Biggie Smalls themed fried chicken restaurant, ‘Notorious F.A.T’, complete with photoshopped mural of Biggie holding a fried chicken drumstick, Aunt Jemima wallpaper, and pictures of white families with guns. You cannot make this stuff up.
Poet Aja Monet Heartbreakingly Recalls The First Time She ‘Hated A Cop’
Poet Aja Monet recalls the first time she “hated a cop” in her poem “The First Time,” which she performed at the 2015 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in Richmond, Virginia.Watch the full poem here.
(GIFS via Button Poetry’s YouTube)
Trolls, Iggy Azalea and the Revolution.
Filmed at the Bell House, Brooklyn earlier this year by the Asian American Writer’s Workshop. Original article by Esther Wang here: http://aaww.org/aamer-rahman-how-to-be-angry/
