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...papers received by Downey are locked it away in the tightly secured evidence control room at the FBI Washington field office at Fourth and G Streets Northwest in downtown Washington. FBI agents in Washington and Austin have been told to take a few logical first steps to nail down basic information about what the tape and documents consist of, how many copies exist, what equipment made the original and purloined videotapes, and who had legitimate access to the stuff during the normal course of the campaign. The list of names arising from that process, says one official, "doesn't mean...
...Same thing that has happened to everything else black folks have done creatively: white folks control it and own it and we remain, for the most part, economic slaves. Pretty basic. And we become slaves to what the "market" tells us we should be buying. And the question I always ask young people when I speak at colleges, community centers, prisons, or wherever: What other people on the planet are allowed (and encouraged from what I have seen through my many years in and around the music industry) to call themselves the equivalent of "niggas" and "bitches...
...basic point: It is real easy to divide hip-hop into camps. The real challenge is to understand WHY hip-hop has deteriorated from the golden era into what we have now, and how corporate interests have played a role in that and how even the socially conscious among us are guilty of perpetuating ignorance rather than education and self-love, especially among those who need it most: Black and Latino young people...
...thing, MIT does not guarantee housing to entering first-years. Consequently, many wide-eyed students seeking housing--and on a greater level, acceptance by their peers--find themselves vulnerable to the dangers and excesses of "rush week." Providing first-year housing should be part of any university's basic commitment to its students. Thankfully, as part of the recent settlement, MIT has agreed to provide all first-years with housing...
Some might view the MIT settlement as an indication that colleges and universities will clamp down on student social life in an unnecessarily harsh fashion. On the contrary, the settlement is merely a reaffirmation of a basic principle that institutions of higher learning are responsible for student safety. To this end, we hope that recent settlement will force other institutions to critically examine their own policies and attitudes, so that a similar tragedy will never happen again...