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Visualizing Music: Representing Black Culture, Community, and Politics

Figure 1 As Jessica Marie Johnson has already documented here on AAIHS, black women utilized Beyoncé’s song, video, and performance

Last month, writer Zipporah Gene, of Nigerian descent, set off a firestorm when she accused African Americans of “culturally appropriating”

As a new school year gets underway, I find myself more excited about my course offerings than usual.

When director F. Gary Gray chose to cut the scene depicting rap producer Dr. Dre’s infamous assault on journalist Dee Barnes, then-TV

New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) will host its first annual