Black Pitch Kayla Williams

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)

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