Keepin’ it Real: Post – MTV Refelections on Race, Sex, and Politics

Throughout the ghettoes of America we of the hip-hop generation say ?keep it real? as a way of insisting that the truth is the only way to go.

In short, there is no time for sidestepping reality.? Kevin Powell is the award-winning author of recognize, his first volume of poetry, and coeditor (with Ras Baraka) of In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers. His essays have appeared in Rolling Stone, Essence and The New York Times. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Within confronts such issues as racism, black self-hatred, gender violence in the nineties, and his own anguished revelations about sex, love, and misogyny. He explores the myths of the Million Man March.