Black Women’s Contributions to Hip-Hop Beyond the Mic
When Wu-Tang Clan’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard (ODB) adorned his 1995 debut album, Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version,
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Flying Lotus and Registers of Black Life and Death
*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent. The music video
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“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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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 Historical Significance of Black Queer Films
In the context of the reemergence of Black nationalist rhetoric and ideologies in hip-hop music in the late 1980s and
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