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The Death of Vibe And The Future Of Magazines :: A Roundtable with Alan Light and Raymond Roker
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Vibe’s death yesterday sparked conversations across the blogosphere about the future of magazines, especially the kind many of us most care about–urban culture and music magazines. I wanted to surface one of them here.
It began with a Twitter post that reposted to my Facebook account. Here was that original post (re-rendered into something resembling [...]
Vibe Is Gone
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
History.
The void that the closing of Vibe leaves is immense. I don’t believe any other media is equipped or even remotely interested in taking up the space that Vibe has.
After speaking with my man Rob Kenner, and Twittering the hell out of my grief and anger over this, I’m coming to this realization:
The only [...]
Jeff’s At Work On Two New Books
Jeff has begun working on Who We Be: The Colorization of America, the followup to Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and Total Chaos…
CSWS V. 2.0 Launches!
After 5 years, we’ve finally overhauled the entire website. Here’s what we did.
The Reader is the online archive of Jeff’s writings on culture, politics, music, and more. It includes excerpts and outtakes from Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and interviews with Jeff. Articles are being added regularly, so come back often.
The Creativity Stimulus
Every moment of major social change requires a collective leap of imagination. Political transformation must be accompanied not just by spontaneous and organized expressions of unrest and risk, but by an explosion of mass creativity…
News From Nowhere :: MIA’s Kala and “Paper Planes”
Children—brown-skinned children from Liberia, India, Jamaica and Baltimore, the post-hip-hop nationals of what M.I.A. calls World Town—climb all over the grooves of Kala. Their noise becomes part of the record’s texture: they shriek in delight, laugh and dance; they kick rhymes; they cock guns…
It’s Obama Time :: The Vibe Cover Story
In August of 2007, Vibe became the first hip-hop gen magazine to put Obama on its cover, even beating the likes of Rolling Stone. It was also Vibe’s first cover featuring a political figure. Jeff got the assignment. Here’s the historic piece…
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