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...Summers meets with African American studies professor Cornel R. West ’74 and questions his work at Harvard, inspiring widespread criticism from faculty. West takes the story to the national media, who report that Summers reprimanded the professor for making a rap album, missing classes, and failing to produce scholarly work during his tenure at the University...
...Globe reported that Summers had reprimanded West for releasing a rap album, skipping too many lectures, and failing to produce serious scholarly work during his time at Harvard. His efforts, Summers was reported as saying, should be realigned towards more academic pursuits...
...written by Elmore Leonard—orbits around the galaxy of popular stars clustered by production company MGM. It would seem that they have strategically selected performers to appeal to the broadest range of audiences. For every racial and social minority—aging rockers, young R&B and rap fans, 70s movie fans, gay men, WWF fans/closeted gay men—there are a few good men towards whom they can gravitate. The problem with that strategy is the movie MGM saddled with that burden—the narrative can’t handle the truth...
...Iweala ’06, affectionately known as Oke, began his relationship with poetry in elementary school. Just a little more than a decade later, Oke opened for Busta Rhymes’ on-campus concert last spring. His affinity for poetry in all its forms—traditional, rap, and the spoken word—goes as far back as elementary school...
Banjoko pointed to the Malcolm X quotations used in many 1980s rap songs as well as to more recent incarnations—such as the title of 50 Cent’s song “Ghetto...