My sophomore year of high school is something that I work very hard to forget. As it was happening, I did my best to not create any outstanding events that might help me remember what a miserable year it was. Every day was the same. …

Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On captured the pain and turmoil that the 1960s were wreaking on a community that had been marginalized and abused in the name of privilege since America’s inception. Many African American soul artists at this time highlighted the grievances and injustices that the Civil Rights Movement…

Music is a celebration of expression and revelations of the human condition. It thrives on diversity not only in the music itself, but in the people that create and listen to it. However, since the rise of rap and hip-hop music in the 1970s and its increasing popularity in the…

The immediate response to Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election was shaped by declarations of a postracial America. Amidst the celebration of the first African American president was a subsidiary narrative of the backlash Obama would face for the next 8 years in office, putting into question how…