Babies, Bigotry and 9/11

Babies, Bigotry and 9/11
Washington Post - The ugly wave of anti-Arab feelings immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, may have been responsible for a sharp increase in the incidence of premature and low-birth-weight babies born to women of Arab descent in the United States in the months that
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Music Scene by Rick Massimo: Hip-hop poet jams to plug book
Providence Journal - If you're wondering what a hip-hop performance poet is doing in a music column, you haven't read or heard Kevin Coval. Coval, touring in support of the book Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica, has been on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam for four seasons
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Composer charts new territory with marriage of classical and trip-hop
San Francisco Gate - Classical composers have been drawing on popular dance forms since the time of Bach and even earlier. So in theory, there should be nothing outlandish about music that combines the sounds of a symphony orchestra with the sampled rhythmic grooves of
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CD Review-Soundtrack-Dave Chappelle's Block Party
Channels - Where are artists like Blackstar and Jill Scott going? They're headed to Dave Chappelle's block party. The soundtrack for Chappelle's new movie features some of today's most talented hip-hop and R & B artists. Most of the beats are simple
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Jewish Music Goes Hip-Hop and Reggae
Belief.Net - To some, the phrase "hip Jewish music" is a natural oxymoron, an impossibility no less unlikely than "funky President" or "kosher ham." At worst, the notion of Jewish music conjures up images of fusty cantorial music and Hebrew school sing-alongs; at
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