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30 years after ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ Jay‑Z’s career embodies hip‑hop’s biggest contradictions

by Jabari M. Evans, University of South Carolina “Reasonable Doubt” was not the first rap album I ever owned. But Jay-Z’s debut was the first hip-hop album I bought with...

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30 years after ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ Jay‑Z’s career embodies hip‑hop’s biggest contradictions

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by Jabari M. Evans, University of South Carolina “Reasonable Doubt” was not the first rap album I ever owned. But Jay-Z’s debut was the first...

Power, pleasure and patriarchy: why The Polygamist on Netflix is captivating viewers

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Grace Khunou, University of South Africa The Polygamist is a Netflix series that has soared up the streaming platform’s charts and triggered a global conversation...

Duquesne City School District prepares to merge with a neighbor

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The district, struggling financially and trailing academically, will be consolidated. State officials will render a decision by June 30. “Pittsburgh's Public Source is an independent...

Dr. Wilmer Leon: The “Democratic Socialist”: It’s the Message Not the Messenger

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Chicago has been given a special gift. Former President Barack Obama selected the city of Chicago for the location of the wonderful Barack Obama...

Robert Hill: July 4th and the slave

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HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET by Robert Hill “What, to an American slave, is your 4th of July?” Abolitionist Frederick Douglass eloquently posed that contradiction in a speech...

America, time to stop acting brand new — we’ve got unfinished business

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by ELINOR TATUM, AmNews Publisher and Editor-in-Chief and MADISON J. GRAY, Executive Editor On April 14, 1865, celebrated stage actor and über-racist John Wilkes Booth slipped into President...
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