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CHRIS FARAONE
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The Trials of Nadia Naffe
She could have been the Republican party’s future. Instead, she was abandoned, insulted, abused, and ridiculed by the GOP and its partisans
Young, attractive, ambitious, conservative, and black, Nadia Naffe should have been a right-wing operative’s dream.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| March 04, 2013
Hip-Hop Trivia grows up
Who Shot Ya?
In their fourth year of operation, the Hip-Hop Trivia squad is finally taking the night (somewhat) seriously.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| February 26, 2013
Occupy Denied Day In Court
Scream On
It took more than a year for Suffolk County prosecutors to come to their senses.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| February 22, 2013
Czarface soars above the clouds
Hip-hop
This week 7LES and Inspectah Deck drop Czarface , a full-length work of adventurous genius revolving around a metal-clad protagonist who feeds on destruction.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| February 11, 2013
The BPD adds insult to injury
Scream On
At times, this kind of decision makes you wonder whether the BPD is saving its best awards for officers who've been involved in the death of civilians.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| February 05, 2013
Dispatch & Pics: Anonymous Rallies for Aaron Swartz in Boston, Declares War on Department of Justice
Outraged and sympathetic members of Anonymous demonstrated for Aaron Swartz.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| January 26, 2013
The Westborough 8 vs. TransCanada: Anatomy of a peaceful protest
Running with the chain gang
Nobody notices the three young women sitting in the idling green Explorer.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| January 25, 2013
The glue-in
Scene from a Pipeline Protest
It takes less than two minutes for the squad to fully lock into formation in the TransCanada office in Westborough, Massachusetts.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| January 23, 2013
You Are Not Alone: The fight for electronic privacy reaches Beacon Hill
Your tinfoil-hat fears about Big Brother might be justified.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| January 15, 2013
Education reform: The battle ahead
Scream On
Five years ago, as George W. Bush was pushing No Child Left Behind, his younger, even sleazier sibling Neil was picking the initiative's pockets.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| December 26, 2012
It’s Adam And Eve, Not Adam And Scumbag Steve
The Year In Christian Memes
In 2012, Christians manifested a wholly new phenomenon by creating their own memeosphere, and by flipping Scumbag Steve and his other advice animal ilk into pro-gospel statements.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| December 20, 2012
Newtown and The Media's Delusional Narrative on Caucasian Mayhem
It wasn't too long into fall semester before white kids from cozy towns resumed brutally slaughtering innocent school children.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| December 19, 2012
Banger style: Hip-hop ringers of 2012
In recapping 2012, I embraced the chance to parade some recent unsung hip-hop ringers.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| December 18, 2012
Still battling the BPPA
Scream On
The last time that the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association dropped an issue of its official newsletter, the Pax Centurion , the outcry was immense: Mayor Tom Menino called the publication "garbage," advertisers fled, and a subsequent dust-up revealed that most of the publication's revenue passed through a company run by felons.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| December 14, 2012
Weed the People
Scream On
The only real role of towns and cities is to figure out where patients will be able to buy, or not to buy, prescription pot.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| December 04, 2012
Hip-Hop: Get On Down
GIFT GUIDE 2012
The record industry has always treated hip-hop as a disposable commodity, so that even iconic work has gone without the slick packaging of archival rock and pop projects.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| December 04, 2012
The Wreckage Club: How Long Will Cops, Activists, and Mayor Bloomberg Get Along After Occupy Sandy?
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CHRIS FARAONE
| November 27, 2012
Harvard students push for fossil-fuel divestment
Oil and ivy
Throughout 350.org's Do the Math tour this month, climate-change warrior Bill McKibben has blasted Harvard, his alma mater, for the school's failure to fully divest from South African companies two decades ago.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| November 29, 2012
When Disaster Strikes
Scream On
For better or worse, hometown pride is as central to hip-hop as misogyny and marijuana.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| November 30, 2012
The musical activism of Boots Riley
Hip-Hop
When Occupy erupted last year, politically aggressive artists had the choice either to walk the walk or quiet down.
By:
CHRIS FARAONE
| November 26, 2012
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