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Online Forum–Hip Hop at 50

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023 AAIHS Editors #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

August 14, 2023 to August 25, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

CFP: Hip Hop at 50

May 5, 2023May 4, 2023 AAIHS Editors #HipHop50, CFP, Gender, hip hop, music

The music journalist Sidney Shaw, the leading female character in the 2002 movie Brown Sugar, opened each of her interviews

Queen Latifah and the Legacies of Black Power

February 22, 2023February 22, 2023 Mickell Carter Black Power, hip hop, music, Pan-African, Queen Latifah

Dana Elaine Owens, also known as Queen Latifah, is renowned for her dynamic acting roles in films and TV series

The Untethered Tongue: Lifting the Black Feminine Voice in Jazz

December 16, 2022December 27, 2022 Sandra Booker Billie Holiday, jazz, music, Nina Simone, Women

What is freedom? Freedom is existing unrestrained in thoughts, actions, and achievements but is not absolved from the world’s reactions

Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement

December 7, 2022December 5, 2022 Whit Frazier Peterson Billie Holiday, Black Arts Movement, Blues, jazz, music

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of