Golden-Era Rap Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition
This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.” Hip hop’s “golden era,” the period from 1987
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Online Forum–Hip Hop at 50
August 14, 2023 to August 25, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting
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CFP: Hip Hop at 50
The music journalist Sidney Shaw, the leading female character in the 2002 movie Brown Sugar, opened each of her interviews
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In Afeni’s Shadow: the Impact of Trauma on a Revolutionary Life
Tupac Shakur wrote “Dear Mama” to celebrate his mother’s strength and plea for her love. The song is an unfiltered
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The Antiracist Visual Politics of Afro-Brazilians
This post is part of our online roundtable on Reighan Gillam’s Visualizing Black Lives Part history, part ethnography, part media studies, and all
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