"Chuck D famously referred to hip-hop as the CNN of black America, precisely because much of the music that emerged from the culture in the late 1980s detailed with troubling acuity and precision the war zone-like conditions in which black and brown folks lived in the two decades following the out-migration of good factory jobs."
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Brittney Cooper at Salon. White supremacy stripped bare: What “Do the Right Thing” tells us 25 years later
The film the Obamas saw on their first date challenged America’s narrative of progress. It also saw into the future
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