Grief, Loss, and Life

May 24, 2020 by Justice Rajee

I travelled home for work and for family. That coincided with the loss of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and a dear friend to me experiencing a loss. I felt sharing some thoughts on grief, loss and life was relevant. Love and respects to all the families affected in the above matters and those whose lives were lost, but did not find the public eye.

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25 Years In The Making

December 02, 2019 by Justice Rajee

I need to hear that Ask Your Oldhead… Awhhh man again and again! In this week’s episode I am flying solo sharing some thoughts on the 25th anniversary of the release of Enter the Wu-Tang and Midnight Marauders. These records greatly impacted my life and show up a critical time in my growth and development. I felt a little urban anthropology about my experience at the time was the perfect kick off to the new format for the show. We are going to weekly releases here forward. Expect most shows on Wednesdays, but this one is coming at you on Friday night hot of the presses. Please subscribe, rate, review, and share with your clan. Thank you for listening. The podcast continues!

Midnight Marauders

Electric Relaxation

Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)

For the Children: 25 Years of Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)

Fun:

https://m.mixcloud.com/djfilthyrich1/a-clan-called-wu-enter-the-marauders-wu-vocals-over-atcq-beats/

SaladPgh - Add on to my brother’s campaign

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XOXOfest 2018 - A Short Reflection

April 09, 2019 by Justice Rajee

Bonus ramblings from XOXOfest 2018 in the StreamPdx studio. Nothing major, nothing minor, but something useful. Thank you to the creative people that brought it back this year. Please listen, subscribe, rate and share. Peace

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Reflecting On Economic Outcomes For Black Men

March 30, 2018 by Justice Rajee

This month the NYTimes Upshot published an article and data visualization piece reporting on a longitudinal study of the economic outcomes for Black men. The data was striking and clear, but there is so much to think about when we are touching on numbers to characterize the experience of Black men, Black women, Black people and all people that I felt it was appropriate to pull this into the show this month. Two previous guests of the show Sam Ashby and Jamaal Green joined me to discuss and reflect. I hope you find our discussion informative and that it adds to your understanding of the many issues this piece pulls into the current conversation about our society. Please read the piece, play with the data tools, and check out the full academic piece from the Equality Opportunity Project.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html

http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race_paper.pdf