Tag: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Reclaiming Identity: Wiz Khalifa Confronts the Raw History of Enslaved Ancestors on “Finding Your Roots”
In an emotional journey through time, global music superstar Wiz Khalifa encountered the stark reality of his lineage on PBS’s acclaimed series Finding Your Roots. Guided by scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Khalifa was handed a centuries-old document that reduced his maternal fifth great-grandfather to an inventory entry: listed not by name, but solely…
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Marcyliena H. Morgan, Scholar Who Brought Hip-Hop to the Academy, Dies at 75
Marcyliena H. Morgan, the visionary linguistic anthropologist who founded Harvard University’s Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute and championed hip-hop as a subject of serious academic study, died on September 28 in a Boston hospital due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease. She was 75. A professor in Harvard’s Department of African and African American Studies,…
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