Earlier this morning SPIN debuted my husband Sacha Jenkins SHR‘s band’s video off their forthcoming album, dropping in June. Check it out. Keep up with The White Mandingos on Facebook. They’re good for you. Trust me. I’ve heard the album.
Their debut single bears the same name as their forthcoming debut album: The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill [...]
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I didn’t think my mellow Prince Pablo could pull this off, but…I saw a run of the show at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City and it was actually really funny. Disclaimer: my husband Sacha Jenkins is the show’s director and Prince Paul is a dear friend so I’m a little biased! Still, [...]
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And the Latino Heritage Month lovefest continues…Here, go see this play. It’s a about a Colombian and a Dominican guy from Nueva York who made hip-hop history together. My better-est half, a haitiano by the name of Sacha Jenkins, conceived and wrote this joint: the words, the music, and the borough—Queens—that created Deez Beatnuts.
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Sacha Jenkins and David “Chino” Villorente co-hosted the “Piecebook Battle” @ Fondation Cartier in the Montparnasse district of Paris. It was very cool. Despite the intermittent rain, the crowds came through all day to support the 15 contestants and four finalists chosen by the hosts and my mellow JonOne 156 (Dominican Power!).
The Contestants had an [...]
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“Drawing on the science of DNA testing and her own sense and experience of mysticism, Cepeda, an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, offers a “synthesis between logos and mythos” in a thoroughly engaging look at race from a Latina’s perspective on what is touted as a postracial society.” — Booklist, starred review
Raquel Cepeda is an author, filmmaker and journalist working and living in her native New York City. furthermore
Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina is part memoir and part chronicle of Cepeda’s year-long journey to discover the truth about her ancestry while looking at what it means to be Latina today.
Bling: A Planet Rock is a feature documentary about American hip-hop's obsession with diamonds and how that intersected itself into the decade long conflict in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
And It Don’t Stop, edited by the award winning journalist Raquel Cepeda, with a foreword from Nelson George is a collection of the best articles the hip-hop generation has produced.
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