[Video] President Obama To Speak at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication

At the National Mall. This was the ceremony that was postponed due to Hurricane Irene.

Also check out some of the #MLKMemorial-related tweets I’ve retweeted on my @Stellaskid twitter account.

Semi-(semi)-related:

Pete Rock Talks Hip Hop’s Impact On Race Relations. [HipHopDX]

[via The White House Blog]

Today’s Occupy Toronto Protest is a Huge Success!

Read all about it via the National Post HERE.

Occupy Toronto online – facebook | twitter

Hank Williams Jr. Monday Night Football Theme Song Yanked After He Compares President Obama to Hitler

Meant to post this before MNF tonight with a pithy comment about who’s gonna ask us if we’re ready for some football now that Hank Williams Jr. got kicked off of ‘Monday Night Football’ by ESPN but I fell asleep after the tryptophan kicked in from eating left-over Thanksgiving turkey this afternoon. Williams is a f-cking NUT though. I mean, hit the jump for the original video of his full appearance on ‘Fox & Friends’ on Oct. 3 that created the initial firestorm if you missed it or aren’t full convinced.

Related:

– Hank Jr. writes song dissing ‘Fox & Friends’ and ESPN. He night be a country cat but he got his response record cut and ready to roll with hip-hop speed & efficiency!

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Listen to Ian Kamau’s new One Day Soon album in FULL

First official album from the Toronto-based spoken word artist/MC/community activist, Ian Kamau. Think the melodic-yet-monotone lilt of Slick Rick mixed with the spoken word cadence of K-os and you’ll get some sense of what this kid sounds like if you’re not already familiar from when I posted about him on the old Kitchen. Or just hit play above….

Learn more about Kamau in my homegirl Anupa‘s feature interview with him from the Toronto Standard, “Ian Kamau is Saving Toronto and Your Soul—One Song at a Time.”

Follow Ian Kamau – facebook | twitter | website

[News] Teen Executed in 1944 May Have Been Innocent!

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“George Stinney, Jr. was 14 years old when South Carolina executed him in 1944, making him the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 20th century. He was convicted of murdering two girls. Now there’s a move to clear his name. NBC’s Mark Potter reports….”

14 years old! You see where I’m going with this now, right?

[NBC Nightly News via The Grio]