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Today in Hip-Hop History: Jeru The Damaja Released ‘The Wrath Of The Math’ 29 Years Ago

Jeru The Damaja Released 'The Wrath Of The Math' 29 Years Ago Jeru The Damaja 'The Wrath Of The Math' 29 Years Ago ...

Dr. Marcyliena H. Morgan, Founder Of The Hip Hop Archive And Research Institute, Dies At 75

Marcyliena H. Morgan, founding director of Harvard's Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, died from complications of ...
Power 98 FM

This Day in Hip Hop & R&B History: October 15

Oct. 15 has transformed the R&B and hip-hop scene in significant ways. Ginuwine was born on this day in 1970. He shot to ...
The Harvard Crimson

AAAS Professor Marcyliena Morgan Remembered for Dedication to Truth, Hip-Hop Scholarship

A professor of African and African American Studies, Morgan was known for pioneering the study of hip-hop as an intellectual endeavor. She died in September due to complications from Alzheimer’s ...

Marcyliena Morgan, Harvard’s ‘scholar queen of hip-hop,’ dies at 75

Hip-hop "was built on dreams and imagination,” Professor Morgan once said. “It imagined a world of equality and justice — and ...
Wall Street Journal

Hip-Hop Is Turning 50. Here’s How It Got Its Name.

This summer marks a vital anniversary in the history of American music. Fifty years ago, on Aug. 11, 1973, a Jamaican-born DJ named Kool Herc helped his sister throw a back-to-school party in the ...