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Bettina Love on Women in Hip-Hop, the WNBA & Female Masculinity

University of Georgia Professor Bettina Love on Women in Hip-Hop, WNBA and Female Masculinity at the 2015 Hiphop Literacies Conference: Hiphop Futures at The Ohio State University. Love is the author of  Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South and the forthcoming Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Back, Up, & Out with Venus Evans-Winters.

Why Toni Morrison Keeps Writing

'Toni Morrison continues to hone her craft, even though she sits comfortably as one of the greatest authors in American history. Here she reads from her new novel, God Help the Child .

Prison, Women, and Change: A Conversation with Nkechi Taifa + Susan Rosenberg

'At the Brooklyn Museum

New Directions in Hiphop Masculinity Studies: Mark Anthony Neal Talks Progressive Gender Politics & The Corner Boys

Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal on the New Directions in Hiphop Masculinity Studies Keynote panel at the 2015 Hiphop Literacies Conference: Hiphop Futures at The Ohio State University.

Visual from Earl Sweatshirt's "Grief" (2015)

Visuals for “Grief” from Earl Sweatshirt’s new album  I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside

Patricia Spears Jones reads "Lave" from The Migration Series Poetry Suite

 'Presented in conjunction with MoMA's exhibition One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North, Patricia Spears Jones reads "Lave" from the Poetry Suite which includes readings of new poems written in response to Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series from 10 highly esteemed contemporary poets, curated by poet and essayist Elizabeth Alexander. Spears Jones is a playwright and poet based in New York. Her most recent book of poetry is Living in the Love Economy (Overpass Books, 2014).'

James Braxton Peterson: Watching Death in the Era of State Sanctioned Murder

"The 1991 videotaped beating of Rodney King was the dawn of an era. Citizen surveillance of police brutality was born, and it was accompanied by all of the perceptual contradictions that the conundrum of recording police violence against citizens continues to entail: police brutality, police exoneration, and the persistence of pain, frustration and anguish in our communities. In this new era, seeing isn't believing — or rather, seeing isn't a necessary legal representation of the evidence in a case — especially if the alleged perp happens to be police."--James Braxton Peterson

Duke University's Elizabeth Williams on being the 4th Pick in the WNBA Draft

Three-time All-American and three-time ACC Defensive Player of the Year Elizabeth Williams was drafted by the Connecticut Suns with the 4th selection in the 2015 WNBA. Williams, who graduates in May, majored in Psychology and was a two time All-ACC Academic Team honoree.

Kehinde Wiley Talks "A New Republic"

Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic , now at the Brooklyn Museum, raises questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture. The exhibition, which runs from February 20 - May 24, 2015, includes an overview of the artist’s prolific fourteen-year career and features sixty paintings and sculptures.

Yusef Komunyakaa reads "The Great Migration" | The Migration Series Poetry Suite

 'Presented in conjunction with MoMA's exhibition One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North , Yusef Komunyakaa reads "The Great Migration" from the Poetry Suite which includes readings of new poems written in response to Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series from 10 highly esteemed contemporary poets, curated by poet and essayist Elizabeth Alexander . Komunyakaa is Global Distinguished Professor of English, New York University. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994. His most recent book of poetry is The Chameleon Couch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012).