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Who will be our leaders? Jeff Chang looks at how hip-hop tried to deliver leadership for a post-civil rights world.(culture)
PERHAPS THE MOST VEXING QUESTION of the post-civil rights generation raised on Sesame Street and "Roots," King's "I Have a Dream" speech and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and living within the coils of an unsleeping, omnipresent, icon-hungry media has been: "Who will be our leaders?"
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"In our hunger for a charismatic, post-King/Malcolm figure, a vacuum existed," Bill Stephney, one of the co-founders of the rap group Public Enemy, says. "I don't think that the times of the eighties were any less politically volatile than at any other point in history. The difference was the vacuum of leadership."
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- Magazine article from: The Nation White, Armond March 17, 2003 700+ words
...to utter the line "civil rights is dead," let alone...C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip...What's Goin' On," Public Enemy's "Fight the Power...Positing the death of civil rights is not only chilling...
- Stalwarts recall role Panthers played in Civil Rights Movement of the
- Newspaper article from: New York Amsterdam News Herb Boyd November 9, 1996 700+ words
...News 11-09-1996 Stalwarts recall role Panthers played in Civil Rights Movement of the. 1960s It has been a generation since the...Edgar Hoover, then director of the FBI, the Panthers were public enemy number one. They, he concluded, `had unified the hate...
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