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Last Poets, modern hip-hop inspiration, may lose home

By theGrio

8:56 AM on 03/28/2011

NEW YORK - Abiodun Oyewole and The Last Poets once produced black nationalist raps credited with inspiring the modern hip hop movement...
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Paul Mooney on Kagan, Obama and Richard Pryor

By theGrio

4:51 PM on 05/17/2010

In the 60's and 70's, Paul Mooney and Richard Pryor opened doors for black comedians in America by pushing the comedy envelope all the way to the edge...
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Paul Mooney's 'Black Is the New White' is an ode to Richard Pryor

By Michael E. Ross

9:27 AM on 12/09/2009

REVIEW - Much of the book is a tale of two dudes: Mooney is the industrious teetotaler eager for a breakthrough in the entertainment world; Pryor is the erratic genius...
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