Top 15 #HipHop Albums of 25 Che Noir x The Other Guys JID Clipse Amadeus360 x Devine Carama Juicy J x Logic Aesop Rock Blu x August Fanon Landon Wordswell Black Milk x Fat Ray Brother Ali x Ant Vinnie Paz Cannibal Ox Shade Cobain x The Bad Seed Sha Stimuli Blueprint #MusicSky

Herbert Marcuse on the power of art: "Art cannot change the world but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world." #HerbertMarcuse #CriticalTheory #FrankfurtSchool #AcademicSky #BookSky #Books

Being quiet in the face of racism is racism.

It was easy to talk about racism in 2020, but what are you doing today when it is dangerous to address the prevailing culture and systems of racial oppression? Did your activism become a way of life, or was it just a performance for the gram?? #Racism #AntiRacism

Systemic Racism and the White Racial Frame Source: Joe Feagin. 2012. White Party, White Government: Race, Class, and U.S. Politics. #JoeFeagin #SystemicRacism #WhiteRacialFrame #Books #BookSky #AcademicSky #Racism #AntiRacism

Book Rec: If you are looking for a great book to contextualize our contemporary political climate, check this one out! Joe Feagin. 2012. White Party, White Government: Race, Class, and U.S. Politics. #JoeFeagin #SystemicRacism #Books #BookSky #AcademicSky #Politics #Racism #AntiRacism

New book alert!! #HipHop #HipHopSky #BookSky #Books #Screwston #Houston #DJScrew

Finished and highly recommended!! #BookSky #Books #AcademicSky #Ferguson #RIPMichaelBrown

Where are the protectors of hip hop culture? It seems like academics are the most concerned with preserving and elevating the culture, while only a few artists are doing the same. KRS is not gonna be around forever. Hip hop is much more than just rap! #HipHop #HipHopSky #Culture

Happy Birthday Hip Hop!! Here is a dope history of hip hop playlist to celebrate to: open.spotify.com/playlist/5Yu... #HipHop #HipHopSky #Music #MusicSky

Top 5 Bands of the 90s & 2000s Linkin Park Rage Against the Machine Thrice AFI System of a Down #Music #MusicSky #LinkinPark #RageAgainstTheMachine #Thrice #AFI #SystemofaDown #RockMusic

"The utopian idea of an aesthetic reality must be defended even in the face of ridicule, which it must necessarily evoke today. For it may well indicate the qualitative difference between freedom and the prevailing order." - Herbert Marcuse 1967 #Marcuse #Art #AcademicSky #BookSky #CriticalTheory

"... art is able to shatter the false reality of the status quo." - Herbert Marcuse #Art #herbertMarcuse #Marcuse #AestheticTheory #ArtSky #AcademicSky #CriticalTheory #FrankfurtSchool

Artists and philosophers should be the truth tellers in dark times like these. #Art #Philosophy #truth

There is so much dope hip hop from new and older artists. It is impossible to keep up, but I try! Here is a running playlist of the top albums of the year. I add to it every week. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/playlist/2bY... #HipHop #HipHopSky #Music #MusicSky

Big ups to @mannyfaces.com for the new book!! Can't wait to dive in. #HipHop #HipHopSky #HipHopED #AcademicSky #Books #BookSky

New book alert! Got this little bio on hip hop underground superstar Eyedea (RIP) #Books #BookSky #HipHop #HipHopSky #Eyedea #rap

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

Top 10 Hip Hop Albums of 2025 So Far: Clipse Brother Ali Blu Cannibal Ox Black Milk Vinnie Paz Landon Wordswell Kenn Starr x Kev Brown Aesop Rock Devine Carama #HipHop #HipHopSKY #Music #MusicSKY #Rap #Clipse #BRotherAli #Blu #CannibalOx #BlackMilk

A few of my favorite underground rappers: RJ Payne Substance810 The Bad Seed Marcel P. Black Alfred Banks OC from NC Napoleon da Legend Rome Streetz Rasheed Chappel #HipHopSky #HipHop #Rap #Underground #Music #MusicSky

So much to say about Clipse today! 1. The album is a 5/5, maybe AOTY 2. This Tiny Desk is hard AF!! 3. Malice is a beast #HipHop #HipHopSky #Music #MusicSky #TinyDesk #Clipse #PushaT #Malice

"The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want it to be." - bell hooks #Justice #truth #books #booksky #academicSky #bellhooks

#HipHopED Here is a great article on teaching rap #HipHopSky #MusicSky #HipHop #Music #HipHopEducation teachersandwritersmagazine.org/the-smart-of...

My Top @talibkweli.bsky.social Albums: Blackstar Reflection Eternal Madliberation Quality Right About Now Mixtape Confidence of Knowing #HipHop #HipHopSky #MusicSky #Music #TalibKweli

"There can be no love without justice." - bell hooks #bellhooks #booksky #love #justice #academicSky

A couple of recommendations for today and every day. #Books #BookSky #AcademicSky #AntiRacism #WEBDuBois #Juneteenth

Breakfast with Bill! #Books #BookSky #AcademicSky #Abolition

Here is my running playlist of the top hip hop albums of 2025... #HipHop #HipHopSky #Music #MusicSky #rap #BoomBap

Excited to dive into this book! #Books #BookSky #AcademicSky #DEI #Diversity #Equity #Racism #antiRacism

The GOP is the nazi party.

Notable Hip Hop Album Releases Today (6-6-2025): The High & Mighty Joey Purp x Thelonious Martin T.F. x Khrysis Substantial Little Simz Lil Wayne Ceschi Sevin Soprano x RJ Payne Vic Spencer #HipHop #Music #MusicSky #HipHopSky #Rap

"But it is also true that art hurts. The capacity to see the world as if it could be otherwise creates yearning and liberates desire..." - Bill Ayers. 2024. When Freedom Is The Question, Abolition Is The Answer. #Art #Abolition #AcademicSky #BookSky #Books

"We inhabit an infinite and dynamic world, a world in motion, and we are ourselves unfinished, unruly sparks of meaning-making energy on a voyage of discovery and surprise." - Bill Ayers. 2024. When Freedom Is The Question, Abolition Is The Answer. #BookSky #AcademicSky #books #Abolition

Another great book on the long history of systemic racism in education. #academicSky #systemicRacism #books #booksky #Education

Couple good finds at the bookstore today! #academicSky #books #booksky

Having a Mac Miller kind of day. #MacMiller #HipHop #musicsky #Music

Going back through this bell hooks classic because it is more important today than it was even a few months ago. #bellhooks #criticalpedagogy #academicSky #books #booksky #feminism #criticaltheory

Finished and underwhelmed. This book criticizes BLM and Michele Alexander from a marxist position. It is a challenging book and made me think a little more deeply about class based movements in Amerikkka. Overall, it is a worthwhile read. #academicSky #booksky #blacklivesmatter

"Fascism breeds cynicism and is the enemy of a militant and social hope.... Without hope, even in the most dire times, there is no possibility for resistance, dissent, and struggle." - Henry Giroux. 2020. On Critical Pedagogy. #academicSky #books #booksky #fascism #resistance

"One of the most serious challenges facing teachers, artists, journalists, writers, and other cultural workers is the task of developing a discourse of both critique and possibility." - Henry Giroux. 2020. On Critical Pedagogy. #academicSky #books #booksky #CriticalTheory #CriticalPedagogy

"Police regulation and prisons exist for those who might upset the capitalist social order by breaking its rules...." - Cedric G. Johnson. 2023. After Black Lives Matter. #booksky #books #academicSky #systemicRacism #anticapitalism

#CapitalismKills #capitalism #anticapitalism #booksky #books #academicSky

#academicSky #fascism #books #booksky #Education #resist

This book is recommended reading for understanding the complexities of white supremacy and racial oppression in the U.S. #academicSky #systemicRacism #books #booksky #Education #racism #criticalracetheory

"As learning is privatized, depoliticized, and reduced to teaching students how to be good consumers, any viable notions of the social, public values, citizenship, and democracy wither and die." - Henry Giroux. 2020. On Critical Pedagogy. #academicSky #books #criticalpedagogy

New book alert! #academicSky #systemicRacism #books #booksky #criticalracetheory

What is the role of teachers and academics as public intellectuals? #academicSky

"One can best recognize a democratic society by its constant complaints that it is not democratic enough." - Zygmunt Bauman 2001 #Democracy #academicSky