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Mosaic Winter 2004 moL I T E Rs A R Y M aA G A Z I N Eic HAKI MADHUBUTI Old School War Essay AMIRI BARAKA Verbal Fisticuffs with Bill O’Reilly DR. TODD BOYD Taking It to the Head BAKARI KITWANA Race and Hip Hop YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poetic War Stories RAQUEL RIVERA Where do Puerto Ricans fit into Hip Hop CAMILLE YARBROUGH In the Midst of an Artistic Journey OF LOVE, WAR & HIP HOP SUMMER 2004 | mosaic 1 2 SUMMER 2004 | mosaic www.mosaicbooks.com issue fourteen, finally Contents Generation Flex | 8 Former Source editor and author of The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture, Bakari Kitwana brings an intellectual voice to the dialogue of hip hop and politics. by Thabiti Lewis Rican Havoc | 12 In five Q&As, hip-hop head and scholar Raquel Rivera, New York Ricans From the Hip Hop Zone, breaks down the culture in Black and Brown. by Ron Kavanaugh Love and War | 14 Three literary stallwarts revisit America’s battle-fatiqued history > essay Truth’s Consequences by Haki Madhubuti > essay Yusef Komunyakaa’s Vietnam War Poetry by Angela Salas, Ph. D. > dialogue ...with liberty and justice for all Amiri Baraka chats with Bill O’Reilly Black Heads | 28 Dr. Todd Boyd, The New H.N.I.C: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop, approaches the new cultural movement with an unsettling urgency. by Lee Hubbard All Praises Due |34 Writer, dancer, educator, and actress Camille Yarbrough talks about her life and prolific career. by DuEwa Frazier SUMMER 2004 | mosaic 3 SUMMER 2004 No. 14 LYNNE d. JOHNSON Editor at Large DEATRA HAIME Reviews Editor RON KAVANAUGH Editor/Publisher Mosaic Literary Magazine (ISSN 1531-0388) is published four times per year by the Literary Freedom Project. Content copyright © 2004. No portion of this magazine can be reprinted or reproduced in any form without prior permission from the publisher. 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