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A. Shahid Stover
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A. Shahid Stover (born December 2, 1973) is an African American writer, philosopher and social critic based in New York City. He is a former underground Hip Hop M.C. turned radical intellectual. Freelance beginnings Having studied History and Education at Coastal Carolina University and Journalism at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, A. Shahid Stover began writing as a freelance reporter for The Carolina Times (one of the oldest independent Black newspapers in America) and has also written as a freelancer for the The Source magazine of Hip Hop music, culture and politics and Left Turn Magazine. THE BROTHERWISE DISPATCH Stover is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of THE BROTHERWISE DISPATCH, which began as a progressive Hip Hop webzine and evolved into an online journal focused on radical theory, social critiques and human liberation. HIP HOP INTELLECTUAL RESISTANCE HIP HOP INTELLECTUAL RESISTANCE<ref name="Stover"/> is Stover's first work of philosophy/critical theory which focuses on cultivating Hip Hop aesthetics as Black cultural resistance to racist advanced capitalist oppression. Stover asserts that Hip Hop culture originated from and serves as a voice of the Black lumpenproletariat and further develops a critique which began with Frantz Fanon and Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panther Party who both recognized the lumpenproletariat as the social class with the most revolutionary potential. 
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