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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

Will Immigrants Clinch the 2008 Election?
October 27, 2008
Frontera Norte Sur

Proposition 6: "Safe Neighborhoods Act" May Do The Opposite, Opponents Say
October 24, 2008
Lori Abbott/Elizabeth Grattan

No Cure for Racism; Treat the Symptoms
October 23, 2008
Morris W. O'Kelly

The LAPD and racial profiling
October 23, 2008
By Ian Ayres

Caifornia Props. 6 & 9 Bad Deals say LA Activists
October 6, 2008
Shirley Hawkins

Prop 6 Hurts Black Youth
September 16, 2008
Nikki Jones

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

Californians Marking Hurricane Katrina Anniversary Say Same "Storm" Brewing Here
August 29, 2008
Lori Abbott/Don Mathisen

Housing Fund Seen as Grassroots Victory
August 28, 2008
Matthew Cardinale and Jonathan Springston