Featured series 
Tag: Hiphop Archive
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Arts & Culture
Legend of rap hears kinship with Dickinson
During Harvard visit, Public Enemy rapper visits poetry class and donates one of his iconic clocks.
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Arts & Culture
Are drill musicians chronicling violence or exploiting it?
Rappers, activists, scholars debate controversy surrounding subgenre of hip-hop.
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Arts & Culture
Protesting police violence, a playlist
Decades before cellphone video and social media demanded Americans witness police brutality, hip-hop turned a bright light on all of it, and more.
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Arts & Culture
Hip-hop steps up
In Aysha Upchurch’s new course, “Hip Hop Dance: Exploring the Groove and the Movement Beneath and Beyond the Beat,” students learn the histories behind some of their favorite moves.
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Arts & Culture
Nas next to Mozart? Why not?
Since 2002, the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute has been documenting hip-hop’s growing legacy and culture.
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Arts & Culture
The soul of a jazz man
In “The Sound of My Soul: Frank Stewart’s Life in Jazz,” nearly 80 photographs large and small document Stewart’s fascination with capturing the country’s signature art form — one rooted in improvisation — on film.
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Campus & Community
Deep in the beat
Teens from The Hip Hop Transformation program visited the Hutchins Center’s Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard to learn about the culture’s history and make their own music.
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Arts & Culture
In a land of equality, racism
“Queloides,” an art exhibit visiting Harvard, shows how racial stereotypes prevailed even after the Cuban Revolution.
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Arts & Culture
Principled expression
A new exhibition of works at the Rudenstine Gallery explores the work of artist Elizabeth Catlett.
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Arts & Culture
Hip-hop Harvard
A new book, “The Anthology of Rap,” celebrates the lyricism of rap and has earned its place in the Hiphop Archive at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
