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Jeff Chang

Freelance Journalist


Jeff Chang has been a hip-hop journalist for over a decade. He has written extensively on race, culture, politics, arts and music. In 1993, he co-founded and ran the influential hip-hop indie label, SoleSides, now Quannum Projects, helping launch the careers of DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker. After being politicized by the anti-apartheid and anti-racist movements at U.C. Berkeley, he worked as a community, labor and student organizer, and as a lobbyist for the students of the California State University system. He was an organizer of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention and serves as a board member for several organizations working for social change in youth and community organizing, media justice, culture, the arts and hip-hop activism. His most recent book, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: The History of the Hip-Hop Generation, was published in 2005.
Juarez Crime Reporter Murdered, Attacks against Press Intensify
November 14, 2008
Frontera Norte Sur

Local Community Radio Act will increase voices, choices
September 25, 2008
Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the Media

Local Community Radio Act will increase voices, choices
September 25, 2008
Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the Media

FCC Ruling Strip-Mines the Requirements of Data Collection on AT&T, Verizon and Qwest.
September 10, 2008
Bruce Kushnick

Invasion of the Policy Pushers: Interest Groups Spin Ballot Process
September 9, 2008
Matthew Hirsch

St. Paul in Hot Seat over Journalist Arrests
September 5, 2008
Timothy Karr

Delivery of 50,000 Signatures Demanding St. Paul Drop Charges Against Journalists
September 4, 2008
Nancy Doyle Brown, Twin Cities Media Alliance

CA Groups Say Freedom of the Press Should Mean "Free the Press" at RNC
September 3, 2008
Lori Abbott/Craig Eicher

Amy Goodman Arrested
September 2, 2008
Josh Silver

Radio host drops lawsuit
August 15, 2008
Bob Egelko