All I Have To Say

During a rally for Eric Garner in downtown Durham, I pulled out my phone to record a chant led by Mama Nia of Spirithouse - then I made this beat out of it. She quotes Assata Shakur: "It is our duty to fight for our freedom | It is our duty to win | We must love and protect each other | We have nothing to lose but our chains" 

Assata DURM

It's already been a decade since J Dilla — the mercurial producer and rapper from Detroit — passed away and his posthumously completed album, The Shining, saw the light of day on BBE Records. 

As they prepare to release the project on 7" for the first time, we're extremely honoured to get our hands on a never-before-heard mixtape by the master himself. Made some time between mid-1999 and early 2000, it's a fly-on-the-wall showing of what Jay Dee had blaring out of his speakers while on the sofa or by the MPC. 

Sink into your own couch and press play before ordering a copy of the re-release.

Order The Shining here - http://bbemusic.lnk.to/JDilla-The-Shining

J Dilla: Back To The Crib Mixtape

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Moon

Balance

Fade

Why are some people rich and others poor? Answering this elusive question has been the lifelong work of economist William (Sandy) Darity, who tudied economics at MIT and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and later pioneered the subfield of stratification economics, an interdisciplinary approach to understanding economic inequality.  State of Things's host Frank Stasio talks with Darity, director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and Professor of African and African American Studies about his life and work.

Busting The Myth Of The American Dream: Economist William Darity Talks Inequality

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Audre Lorde poems read by Nia Wilson as part of the HFZ 2018 Book Study.  SISTER OUTSIDER by: Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde A Song For Many Movements

Nia Wilson

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