Left of Black S4:E5 |

Left of Black @ Harvard: Marcyliena Morgan, Executive Director of the HipHop Archive and Research Institute

On location at the HipHop Archive and Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research in Cambridge, MA, Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal sits down withMarcyliena Morgan, Professor of African & African American Studies, and Founder and Executive Director of theHipHop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard.

Morgan, the author of Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and The Real Hiphop: Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the LA Underground  (Duke University Press, 2009), discusses the vision of the HipHop Archive and Research Institute and the establishment of the Nasir Jones HipHop Fellowship.

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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.

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