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(04/06/17 6:00am)
Producer and artist-in-residence 9th Wonder gave a lecture March 31 in the Rotunda titled “The History of Hip-Hop.” The presentation ranged from the producer’s personal history with the genre to its overarching themes, and classic hip-hop samples provided enhancement throughout.
(03/14/17 4:01am)
“American Teen,” released March 3, does not boast the budding maturity of a Chance the Rapper album or the refined, soulful melancholy of a Frank Ocean work. Nineteen-year-old Khalid is surely no Kendrick Lamar whose sermons of love and loss in Compton, Calif. preach hope and healing to young black listeners. Despite all this and lacking in age and experience, Khalid exhibits the joy of black youth, so rarely seen or even acknowledged in the highly politicized landscape of black art.
(03/06/17 3:08am)
Poet Claudia Rankine, in both her body of work “Citizen: An American Lyric” and a profile by The New Yorker, has spoken often of the idea of a “racial imaginary.” In her poetry, this concept is demonstrated by the line, “Because white men can’t police their imaginations / Black men are dying.”
(02/02/17 7:37am)
One of the most revolutionary acts for black women in American history has been to readily and fearlessly take up space. The subtle exclamation of “The Sounds and Silences of Black Girlhood” — a mini-exhibit in the Special Collections Library curated by Prof. Corinne Field’s Fall 2016 WGS 4559 students — exists as an undeniable reminder of the inherent resistance black women express from a young age.
(11/11/16 2:16am)
Until the last few minutes of the “Atlanta” finale, Donald Glover, creator of the show and protagonist Earnest “Earn” Marks, grants the audience only this — a lost jacket with an unexpected and increasingly alarming significance. In this culmination of a short, 10-episode season, the audience is indeed left with little plot advancement, but with every promise of an unspoken, long-desired camaraderie with modern black television.
(07/08/16 2:40am)
“House of Lies,” a Showtime comedy-drama starring Don Cheadle as the bull-in-a-china-shop management consultant Marty Kaan, did its very best to give viewers a millionaire’s fairytale ending.
(06/17/16 11:42pm)
Comedian Bo Burnham wakes up in a hotel room, walks over to the window and stares out over the gray world, his face somber and covered in clown makeup. He makes a deliberately dramatic journey over to the venue he is performing at while a robotic female voice explains to the audience that there is nothing funny about the modern world.
(06/07/16 10:28pm)
MTV’s seminal reality TV show “Real World” ended its 31st season the end of May. But over the years the show has changed. Early seasons garnered praise for providing a televised hub for discussing issues relevant to adolescents and young adults. Sex, religion and prejudice were all fair game for the handful of young strangers forced to live together for the duration of the season.