Tag: Marcyliena Morgan

  • Nation & World

    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.

    12 minutes
    Marcyliena Morgan.
  • Nation & World

    Nas next to Mozart? Why not?

    Since 2002, the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute has been documenting hip-hop’s growing legacy and culture.

    6 minutes
    Makeda Daniel
  • Nation & World

    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.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Black like we

    A panel discussion introduced an exhibit of photos from the Paris World’s Fair of 1900 that shows African-Americans as they wished to be depicted, not as a discriminatory American society would have had them be.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    8 minutes