Black Pitch Kayla Williams
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- Music
An dissection and exploration of popular music through a creative and academic lens.
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Songs of the Noir: Episode 3: Hip Hop, Police Brutality, and Fighting Against the Abuse of Power
Hello and Welcome to Black Pitch, a podcast about music and pop culture. In this series, I will be exploring popular protest music by black artists from the Civil Rights Movement to the 1980s. In this episode, I focus on and dissect Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5's 'The Message', N.W.A's 'F*ck tha Police', and Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power'.
Recommended Reading:
Racism in the Prison Industrial Complex (Angela Davis): https://www.colorlines.com/articles/masked-racism-reflections-prison-industrial-complex
Structural Racism in the Prison Industrial Complex (Tre A Carver): https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/40822
N.W.A Court Case:
N.W.A.'S WINNING CASE - The Washington Post
Rap Music and the First Amendment | The First Amendment Encyclopedia (mtsu.edu) -
Songs of the Noir: Episode 1: Minstrelsy, Civil Rights, and the Music Behind the Movement.
Hello and Welcome to Black Pitch, a podcast about music and pop culture. In this series, I will be exploring popular protest music by black artists from the Civil Rights Movement to the 1980s. In this episode, I focus on and dissect Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit', Nina Simone's 'Mississippi Goddam', and Sam Cooke's 'A Change is Gonna Come"
Recommended Reading:
https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/civil-rights-memorial/civil-rights-martyrs
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/nyregion/malcolm-x-assassination-case-reopened.html
https://time.com/5778688/malcolm-x-assassination/
The Hunting of Billie Holiday - POLITICO Magazine