Zeek Burse’s “Broke Man” and the Legacy of the Radical Blues
On his 2017 album XXII, vocal artist Zeek Burse features Paralee Knight on a track Knight co-wrote called “Broke Man.” The song moves
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Music
The Black Intellectual Tradition and Hip Hop
Pictured in profile on the cover The Narrative (2016), hip hop artist Sho Baraka calls upon listeners to draw connections between
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The Hip Hop Pedagogy and Innovative Prose of Rakim Allah
It was the summer of 1986 in Chicago, and my eleven-year-old self was engaged in an intense debate with my
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Hip Hop and Disability: An Interview with Leroy Moore Jr.
This month I interviewed Bay area artist and producer Leroy Moore Jr., co-founder of the Sins Invalid performance project and
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The Enduring Controversies of the N-Word
Hearing the N-word uttered in popular media is rather familiar in the United States. A version of the word is
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