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Bad Bunny’s Cultural Reach Extends From Stadiums to Syllabi

For Bijou-Elyse Wallace, Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance will represent more than just music. Wallace, a Howard University student and devoted fan of the Puerto Rican superstar, is getting ready to host a Super Bowl watch party for the first time ever alongside Changó, the Afro-Latin association at Howard, and the university’s student association. In […]

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Kendrick Lamar’s Multilayered Halftime Show Was About Far More Than Just a Rap Beef

Prior to the ascension of Donald Trump, rappers and America’s political right wing were not friends. They enjoyed — and often profited from — a mutual enmity. For nearly 30 years, from the perch of his eponymous and often top-rated Fox News show, commentator Bill O’Reilly consistently used hip-hop to gin up white conservative fear […]

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