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Palestinian-Israeli hip hop artist Tamer Nafar visits his old neighborhood of Ramat Eshkol in the Israeli city of Lod, the inspiration of a semi-autobiographical feature film Junction 48 which opens in the U.S. in March. (Joshua Mitnick/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Meet the Palestinian hip-hop artist at the center of Israel’s culture wars

January 17, 2017

LOD, Israel — Tamer Nafar fell in love with hip-hop growing up amid the faded public housing blocks and garbage-strewn public parks of Ramat Eshkol, a hardscrabble interethnic neighborhood in the central...

In ‘Nobody’s Smiling,’ Common Addresses The Violence That Has Been Ripping Through His Native Chicago

February 6, 2015

By Gerrick D. Kennedy Los Angeles Times (TNS) Common has already lighted up the awards season with his powerful perseverance anthem “Glory.” Taken from the historical drama “Selma,” the single...

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