A mystery citizen in the Greater Manchester, England became annoyed by the potholes that riddled his city’s street after a number of his friends were injured in biking accidents involving the unfixed holes. When the city failed to act upon request, the citizen, who calls himself Wanksy- a more suggestive
Month: October 2015
The introduction of social media has made it easier to bring attention to important issues. One form of social participation is #activism, where online community members share hashtags like #blacklivesmatter, #kony2012,#feminism, #consentissexy, #loveislove and the like. Many see this as a really great way for youth and other members of
Built in 1885, the Penitentiary of New Mexico is a maximum security prison holding almost eight hundred male prisoners in the state’s capital, Sante Fe. It is also home to one of the most violent and brutal prison riots in US history. What started with an officer catching two inmate
The news today is filled with stories of victims of race based aggression and violence. Black pride and civil rights fight against white supremacy and oppression. These tensions have lead to horrible injustice that mirrors the monstrosities that occurred before and during the last civil rights movement; tension between African
What happens when you combine the sadistic inner thoughts of slasher filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock and Wes Craven with the hard bassline beats of rap? A subgenre of hip-hop with a cult-like following that began in the 1990s called “horrorcore”. Horrorcore directly preceded gangster rap in terms of chronological time,