HardKnock.TV takes you Behind the Scenes into the Beat Junkies studio while Rhettmatic and Buff1 work on their new collaborative album; self titled “Crown Royale”.
In this segment DJ Rhettmatic talks about coming up in Hip Hop as an Asia American. Rhett says that he thinks Filipinos and Asians in general are starting to get their just due in Hip Hop. Rhett remembers that coming up he was hated on by some Filipinos who called him a fligger and asked him if he wanted to be black. At the same time he got hated on from the hip hop community until he showed and proved that he belong. Rhett goes on to say that people try to call him an Asian American Hip Hop artists but that he rather think of himself as a Hip Hop artists that happens to be Asian American. Rhett goes on to talk about some of the Asian Americans doing big things in Hip Hop like Ill Mind, Chad Hugo, DJ Q-Bert, Jabbawockeez and more.

Crown Royale album is in stores now! Interview by Mark Anthony Jenkins and Nick Huff Barili.

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“I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired!” This courageous statement by Fannie Lou Hamer during the human rights movement in the 1960′s inspired thousands of people to fight for their rights and pushed her into national acclaim. In this, the first documentary profile ever on civil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer, see actual film footage of Ms. Hamer in the movement. At 44 years old, this brave daughter of sharecroppers faced death threats daily for standing up against a racist system for poor African Americans denied basic human rights. Like Ms. Hamer, many fearless African American women have played crucial roles in the struggle for freedom, but have gone unrecognized. In a moving interview, Congressman John Lewis, who worked with Ms. Hamer in the movement, offers a valuable perspective on Ms. Hamer’s character and her accomplishments. See how Fannie Lou Hamer’s pour, courage, and selflessness changed the face of America.

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Lecture 1 of Clay Carson’s Introduction to African-American History Course (HIST 166) concentrating on the Modern Freedom Struggle (Fall 2007). Topics in this lecture include a course introduction and W.E.B. Du Bois. Recorded September 25, 2007 at Stanford University.

This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930, focusing on selected individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African-American struggles for freedom and justice. Clayborne Carson is a professor in the History Department at Stanford University.

Complete playlist for the course:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=40E11D5C66CAC48C

Course syllabus:

http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/History/Syllabus%20Fall%202007b.pdf

More on Clayborne Carson:

http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/

Stanford University channel on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/stanford

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