“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music
“1989, a number, another summer, sound of the funky drummer” —Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” The scene may be the
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When John Hope Franklin and Pepsi Made a Black History Record
A decade after his death, John Hope Franklin remains among the most prominent historians to ever chronicle the African American
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Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy
Ancestry.com has recently come under a lot of well-deserved criticism for whitewashing slavery with a new advertisement that portrays an
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Lupe Fiasco’s “Manillas” and the Material Culture of Anti-Black Violence
In Lupe Fiasco’s seventh album, Droga’s Wave, he unveils how the historic legacies of transatlantic slavery connect with contemporary Black
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The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation
“Is the unruly woman masker still relevant?” This question posed by Xavier University dean and professor Kim Vaz-Deville speaks to
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