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biko

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About Me

From Milwaukee to Hollywood and back again.I'm a hip-hop organizer, academic, and journalist. You can either check for me in The Source or in your neighborhood spoken word spot. But wherever you find, I rep the Brew.

My Interests

life

I'd like to meet:

Gandhi, Mandela, Steve Biko, Fannie Lou Hamer

Music:

Black Elephant, Self Scientific, Growing Nation, Bob Marley

Movies:

Bootlegs

Television:

You Tube

Books:

Rules for Radicals, Pedagogy of the Opressed, Ghana and Race Rebels, Makes Me Wanna Holler, Surplus Powerlessnes

Heroes:

My parents

My Blog

Surviving Kilwaukee

This article was orginally posted at:http://www.wiretapmag.org/activism/43223/and athttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20071001/kilwaukeeSeptember 7, 2007"Imagine us in that bottom on that PCP.Walkin' to sc...
Posted by biko on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:43:00 PST

Autumn Blaze

Autumn Blaze is one of the Midwest's top spoken word artists. Tuesday she rocked the crowd at Bronzeville own's Poetry Unplugged at Soche Milwaukee. Yeah, Bronzeville's back!Make sure you come every...
Posted by biko on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:33:00 PST

Hood Olympics--3rd Annual Put the Guns Down Festival

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Posted by biko on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:15:00 PST

Grand Opening of Poetry Unplugged @ Soche

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Posted by biko on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:18:00 PST

Mysteriously Missing Media Watch

White Folks Only?You got to give it to Rolling Stone. For the last 40 years the music rag has been the standard bearer of pop culture magazines. Yeah they mostly write about rock music, but over the...
Posted by biko on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:11:00 PST

We Are the Ones--Allied Media 2007

We Are the OnesAllied Media Conference 2007Robert "biko" BakerAs a student of movement history I am often times frustrated by how my generation perceives the powerful work of the Civil Rights Generati...
Posted by biko on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:16:00 PST

If the kids get cuffs...we all get cuffs.

It's crazy seeing adults talking about putting kids in handcuffs. ...
Posted by biko on Sat, 05 May 2007 09:01:00 PST

Evidence "The Weatherman LP" Official SOURCE review!! 4 Mics!!

4 MicsProduction: Artist, DJ Khalil, Alchemist, DJ Babum. Sid Roams(Joey Chavez & Bravo)Few MCs in the game are more underrated than Evidence from Dilated Peoples. While he is best known for his laid ...
Posted by biko on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:56:00 PST

If hip-hop is dead, it died with Biggie on March,9th 1997!

Missing You10 years after his passing, Hip-hop is still mourning the death of The Notorious B.I.G."Cause the greatest rapper of all time died on March 9thGod bless his soul&rest in peace kidIt's becau...
Posted by biko on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:30:00 PST

Controversy surrounding Assata Shakur shuts down college campus.

Since her nighttime escape from prison 27 years ago, Assata Shakur has been one of the most controversial figures in American popular culture. While the hip-hop generation has embraced the former Bl...
Posted by biko on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:37:00 PST