Social, Cultural Links

Sufia Giza Launches SankofaTimes.com

“SANKOFA Times Media was founded in 1995 by Sufia Giza in order to create positive, uplifting and educational information and images of people of color in general and African Descendant people in particular that are missing in mainstream newspapers, television and movies. We have Culturally Affirming Wholistic Health oriented newsletters, a library of empowering SANKOFA Times TV programs, Environmental & Sustainable Development Documentaries, Ethnic Art and Educational Literary Materials available.”

Listen to the poetry of Sufia Giza in “Sufia Giza: Lyrical Kulcha” here at kintespace.com.

Author Mwalimu Bomani Baruti Online

“Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (aka Larry Crawford) is the co-founder and co-director of the Akoben Institute, an independent Afrikan centered full-time and after-school home schooling and tutorial program. He has written numerous articles analyzing European society, Afrikan culture and manhood, Black Economics and other topics as they relate to the Afrikan community globally.”

The next LIB Radio sampler will feature Mwalimu Bomani Baruti here at kintespace.com.

A Classic Book

DJs love vinyl discs from the 1970s so surely we darkly packed poets of the hip hop generation should love poetry books from the 1970s. One perfect specimen is We Speak As Liberators: Young Black Poets. Look for celebrations and commemorations of this book here at kintespace.com!

“Tribes of the Internet”

Rough Type posts “Tribes of the internet” with, “In a 1971 article titled ‘Dynamic Models of Segregation,’ Thomas Schelling, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for economics, offered a fascinating reappraisal of the segregation of communities along racial lines, illustrating the way biases are magnified through a kind of network effect.”

“Wikipedia as Accurate as Britannica”

“Wikipedia, the embattled online encyclopedia, is almost as accurate as the venerable Encyclopedia Britannica, according to researchers at the journal Nature. The findings, based on a comparison of scientific entries, were published in the journal’s online edition Wednesday.” This is from a newsfactor.com article by Walaika K. Haskins.

Fair Use and Free Speech

www.centerforsocialmedia.org features a summary of fair use as it stands today. “Fair Use is the right, in some circumstances, to quote copyrighted material without asking permission or paying for it. It is a crucial feature of copyright law. In fact, it is what keeps copyright from being censorship. You can invoke fair use when the value to the public of what you are saying outweighs the cost to the private owner of the copyright.”

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