Correction: White female dressed in Anarchy gear sets fire to local business in the latest attempt by white people to center themselves in black Americans ongoing attempts to try and fight for equality. FIFY. Dear white allies if you are going to do this shit and somehow take none of the blame while black folks get…

un-American?

Oh my goodness. Michael, I am so glad you’re okay and I hope your hands have no lasting discomfort or injury! Everything you wrote and said in the video is true from my own experience: when their eye is trained to notice that which doesn’t belong, it always falls on a Black person! Then while they’re watching us,…

I’ve spent a few evenings watching a white journalist reporting from Portland, OR, saw him teargassed a few times but it never had me worried for his safety. Last night I saw Michael Harriot’s tweet that he’d been arrested, and I was more worried about a stranger than I’ve ever been. It was a relief to see…

I mean, one of the great iconic images of the Black Power fist is from the 68 games and Peter Norman had the sense to ask his fellow athletes about how to appropriately support them and it was not raising a white fist. That was over 50 years ago, so...

I haven’t watched the video, either. I haven’t watched any of them. I can’t handle it, and I don’t know if it’s fragility or what—I’ve always assumed watching a stranger die would feel to me like an intrusion on them, like mere voyeurism. Which sounds high and mighty of me, though I don’t mean it to be, because I get…

I think it’s because you haven’t seen the full video. I’ve seen tons of police brutality videos. Generally, they’re short and if they end in death it’s from a gun shot. This was different. It was long and slow and painful and my hands kept clenching into fists wanting to reach into the screen and stop it (never had a…

That’s the one thing I can’t wrap my mind around: How did George Floyd’s murder become the catalyst? For black people, the answer’s simple? We’ve just had enough.

Apologize in advance as not sure how to approach this without sounding like I’m mansplaining, and can’t think of how to do this without it being a novella. This stuff is really messy, so will probably not explain it well.

I would comment on this news item over on Deadspin, if Jim Spanfeller hadn’t killed it to begin with and wasn’t so cowardly as to not allow comments on zombie Deadspin.

Yah, its literally everything about the band’s releases - digital tracks have always been free.

Not sure why Barsanti sounds so confused. Every RTJ album has been released for free for a while after release, and you can preorder/order physical albums and merch at https://runthejewels.com.

Indeed, every album have been available for free download (which the article seems to have missed). Also, as I’ve already ordered it on vinyl, I don’t think it would have been beyond the wit of man to work out ‘how this will logistically work’. What with the details of exactly how to buy it being readily available and…

All RTJ albums have been released this way.

“You provided nothing to back up any of your claims in this article.”

Well, Chuck D is the living voice of revolution, and Flavor Flav is a burned out chickenhead court jester brought in to provide comic relief for a band that was so serious and on message at all times that it actually needed comic relief. So I’m going to go ahead and side with Chuck on this one.

10 minute chunks exclusively on your phone

Well, it’s not, is it? This is only service of its kind. If anything, streamers tend to elongate their shows in hopes people won’t traverse over to Youtube or Tiktok.

You’re god damn right that’s where we stole it from.