On Hip Hop and Growing Up in Philadelphia: An Interview with MK Asante
This month I interviewed MK Asante. Asante is a best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, recording artist, and professor. He studied at the University of
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Popular Culture
The Little Known History of Black Women Using Soda Fountains as Contested Spaces
The accurate accusation of tone-deafness has been circulating to frame the now-defunct Pepsi ad staring Kendall Jenner. For those who
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To Be (Politically) Black and British
At a recent preview screening for the first episode of Guerrilla, a joint SKY Atlantic/Showtime production, members of the audience
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Hip Hop, Masculinity, and “The Get Down”
Why does it seem like hip hop can handle only a handful of prominent female MCs at a time? Roxanne
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Respectability Politics and Shonda Rhimes, a Black Woman Showrunner
This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. Black women’s visibility on
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