Hiphop Archive
Build. Respect. Represent.
November 2009   #3
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(Left: Price, Right: Forman)

Playlist: Motivation
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Are you feeling down?  Finals have you stressed? Well, it is time to get motivated! Listen to the our Motivational hiphop playlist for a pick me up.
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The Wire visits the Hiphop Archive
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(Cast members of The Wire with Archive staff)

Professor Marcyliena Morgan, Director
World Hiphop: Japan
Japan
Japan has been added to the Asia section of the Hiphop Archive's World Hiphop page.  Professor Dawn-Elissa Fischer is the Principal Investigator for Japan for the Hiphop Archive.
 

Black Youth Project
Black Youth Project
The Black Youth Project's website is a cyber-resource center for black youth and all those who are committed to enriching the lives of black youth. Within the pages of this website, visitors can access research summaries, read blogs about and by black youth, search an extensive rap database, access black youth social justice organizations, and download social justice curricula to teach. Arguably more than any other subgroup of Americans, African American youth reflect the challenges of inclusion and empowerment in the post-civil rights period as well as the challenges of web access and digital spaces to call their own. Therefore, the intended purpose of this website is to generate new media information, blogs, art, conversations, webinars, and data that will expand the human and social capital of young African Americans, facilitating their general empowerment through highlighting their voices and experiences.
 
The Black Youth Project began as a research project conducted by Professor Cathy Cohen, a political scientist at the University of Chicago.   The site was originally designed for student researchers and others involved in the project to keep them informed and post information about the ongoing study.  As the work progressed, the student researchers asked Professor Cohen to make the site available to the Black youth who were being studied.  They argued that the youth had a right to know everything the researchers were saying and that all youth should have access to data and writing.  Once the youth became involved, the students asked Professor Cohen to do even more.  They wanted a site that the youth could use for information that reflected them. The research students argued that the site should aggregate and provide data and reports, and that it should support the youth by allowing newspaper writing and a space to put up their own work up, etc.  Professor Cohen say, "BYP was imagined by young people who worked on the research project and had grander thoughts about what the site could and should be. They kept saying: "We can do more."  I call them 21st Century scholars.  They are not restricted to reading just articles and books.  They have a different understanding of how technology works and what we can do with it."
Horrorcore:
I Never Thought Hiphop Would Take It This Far

Old Whaling Church All Hollow's Eve, or Halloween - a day that many do not necessarily associate with hiphop - has become one of the most celebrated customs in the U.S. The link between this pseudo-holiday and hiphop is actually stronger than most might think.


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- Alvin Benjamin Carter III, Editor



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