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Black Planet at 25
This year is the 25th anniversary of the release of the Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet. The ambitious concept album followed-up on the success of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. That album’s socio-political observations found the band comparing that record to Marvin Gaye’s What’s Goin’ On, but the [...]
Grounded: Censoring Space
When we talk about travelling to the stars, we often talk in terms of technological development and pushing past the current limits bounding the horizons of space science. However, one thing a space-bound race will always have a hard time hurdling are the strictures on their own understanding of themselves and their culture. Terrestrial earthlings [...]
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Tagged alien invasion, NASA, nudity, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Pioneer plaque, prudishness, space sex, war paranoia
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