How Hip-Hop Fights The Power — And Also Serves It

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What the history of U.S. protests illuminates about today

To the casual observer, it might seem like the U.S. has spent years in a constant state of protest — and they’re only getting more intense under the second Trump administration. So we’re revisiting our conversation with Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, the author of “A Protest History ...  Show more

What the quarter-zip craze tells us about Blackness and respectability

What does the humble, boring quarter-zip sweater have to do with respectability politics and Blackness? Apparently, a lot! When two young Black men on TikTok brought the quarter-zip into vogue for young folks, they unknowingly waded into some very long-lived discourse on Black fa ...  Show more

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