this took more out of me than anything i can recall. but i needed to count up the cost. so i made a spreadsheet of people in hip hop who died before their time—wrote from that. it’s a brutal, emotional document. i had to stop at 63. most here are Black men nytimes.com/2023/08/08/mag…

“Whatever she did, it doesn’t warrant her being shot and her unborn baby being killed,” Nana M. Watson, president of the Columbus branch of the N.A.A.C.P, on The sickening police killing of pregnant 21 year old Ta’Kiya Young. nytimes.com/2023/09/01/us/…

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President Biden let the country and the world down with an address to the American people that can only be characterized as a declaration of war. He refuses to listen to people in his own party like Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib, nor millions of everyday folk like Jewish Voice for Peace calling

Join us for another Small Talk at FHI! This time SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) is joined by renowned journalist, activist, and cultural critic Bakari Kitwana For more information and registration info: bit.ly/Bakari2023

A wonderful evening with the hip hop scholar himself, Bakari Kitwana here at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U.. Talking through the history of the genre and its ongoing legacy as we celebrated Hip Hop at 50. Episode soon to come! Global Black Studies at Duke Duke University #hiphopat50

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Many folks disputing hip hop history from all different viewpoints etc … but if you never did this or know what this is … sit this one out a sec. Lol

A moment captured with Christopher Emdin, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Global Black Studies at Duke's @NewBlackman, and Bakari Kitwana at the "Celebration in Honor of Marcyliena H. Morgan" the founding director of The @HipHopArchive at Harvard University

“As hip-hop starts to expand beyond New York City, then it becomes almost a competition to be the first one from your city to put your city on the hip-hop map.” -- Bakari Kitwana Home Is Where the Heart of Hip-Hop Is nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Celebrating the Legacy of Dr. Marcyliena Morgan and 50 Years of HipHop last month at Harvard with Brandon M. Terry, Imani Perry and Bakari Kitwana Photographs by Melissa Blackall courtesy of the Hutchins Center

Excited for this conference and very excited to be reunited with Mimi Valdés Kierna Mayo and Bakari Kitwana on a panel about life at hiphop magazines on Wednesday 2/20 WORD: LIFE: An Opinionated Mixtape of Hip Hop Journalism | Columbia Journalism School journalism.columbia.edu/word-life-conf…

WORD: LIFE: An Opinionated Mixtape of Hip Hop Journalism | The Architects: A Conversation Between Editors with @therealBakari, @KiernaMayo, born black and Mimi Valdés, moderated by Jelani Cobb youtube.com/watch?v=qqo02X…

People. The J Cole / Kendrick Lamar thing is a bump in news because most CASUALS are trained to hear drama & bullsht and tune away from their greatness. Each one of them have a catalog of songs that are entertaining teaching moments. Enough to have podcasts of their own. CASUALS

Hip Hop and the White House | Official Trailer New doc, premiering this month on @Hulu, will feature @Common, Sno, Chika, BunB.eth , IAMKRSOne, Roxanne Shante, @therealBakari and more. youtube.com/watch?v=gjAVCg…

Wu-Tang Clan: “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” -10 day listening party ⁦Chuck D⁩ ⁦carlito rodriguez⁩ ⁦BunB.eth⁩ ⁦David Mays⁩ ⁦Wise Intelligent⁩ ⁦Rapsody⁩ ⁦Chance The Rapper⁩ bbc.com/news/articles/…

Remembering #GwendolynBrooks: Homage to an Independent Black Intellectual Life | Bakari Kitwana newblackmaninexile.net/2017/06/rememb… #BoTD

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“Her default setting was joy. She was the patron saint of lost children of all persuasions. Our favorite nickname for her was ‘Mother of the Masses.’” —Lisa Jones Brown remembering her mom Hettie Jones. ⁦SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026)⁩ ⁦Michael Eric Dyson⁩ ⁦⁦ nytimes.com/2024/08/24/boo…

⁦Jasiri X⁩ on how ⁦1Hood⁩ expanded its hip-hop arts & activism involvement into local electoral politics engagement at “The Hip Hop Summit on Black & Brown Men & the Vote.” Watch now ⁦breakbeatmedia⁩ s/o ⁦⁦SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026)⁩ ⁦⁦⁦Cornel West⁩