Former Georgia lieutenant governor subpoenaed to testify before Fulton County grand jury in 2020 election probe

CNN  —  Former Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan received subpoenas to testify before a Fulton County grand jury this month, a source with direct knowledge of the 2020 election interference investigation in the state told CNN. Duncan has been a sharp critic of Donald Trump’s efforts to upend Georgia’s election results. He recently told…

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The Last Poets and Watts Prophets: The radical hip-hop pioneers ‘written out of history’

One way in which the street poets anticipated hip-hop is that they were deemed politically dangerous. Unlike NWA or Eminem, they lacked the commercial impact to inspire boycotts and White House denunciations (“We didn’t make a dime,” said Hamilton) but they certainly attracted hostile attention in the shadows. “We were on President Nixon’s list, the…

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