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From jazz to hip hop, Afro-South Asian music collaborations reflect imagined, more liberatory worlds A conversation with Elliott Powell, author of ‘Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music’. Hip hop singer Missy Elliott at the 44th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux. | Valentin Flauraud/Reuters Afro-South Asian (American) musical alliances demonstrate an “other side” of Black life, history, and politics, argues Elliott Powell in his new book, Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music...

The Holier-Than-Thou Crusade in San Francisco Gary Kamiya © AP/ The Atlantic San Francisco has issued its latest grand moral decree, and bad ex-presidents would be quaking in their coffins—if they could stop laughing. On January 26, the San Francisco school board announced that dozens of public schools must be renamed. The figures that do not meet the board’s standards include Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Revere, and Dianne Feinstein. A panel had determined that the 44 schools—more tha...

Whether it was arizona, kansas, north dakota, every single time, everybody got to be involved. is that a path to healing? is that a path to a better outcome for the united states. and when it comes to the democratic party, he just feels like the primary system is setting up a fever dream of unelectability that he doesn't want to participate in. he doesn't think that that is what his home is right now. and so when you are talking about completely ending the health insurance industry, or you talk about eliminating i.c.e. or getting too the far outreaches of the fringes of american politics, he d...

Freak flag anymore. >> maybe it's not their fault, but do you think tech entrepreneurs are doing enough to contribute to the culture? >> it's not their fault. you can't blame them for homelessness in san francisco obviously. that's oversimplifying it. the question is what do they see? we want to make sure some don't get left behind. >> did you have trouble getting tech folks to come on and talk to you? if so, why do you think that is? >> i didn't have any luck getting through to the top of the big name companies. that was disheartening. it's hard to make a real honest portrait of what's going ...

Secretary too. i hated it when younger people behind the rope line would be there on election night and make all kinds of statements like who are you talking and like this is someone that wandered into the office a week before and we are afraid to have them hand out posters. >> we called these people horses? they tend to know and speak. what does hillary clinton do? a freak flag she can fly? how does that work? >> put tube socks and shot collers on -- collars -- she should do press and they should not be so excited to talk to someone else. >> the skills your kids need to