#FemHipHop Conference participant Tiara Phalon reflects on her panel “Gender Bending: Non-Traditional Roles Of The Female MC.”
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The class discusses Joan Morgan’s “When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost” and being a hip hop feminist. Plus, a conversation with Professor Nghana Lewis.
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This week in class, guest blogger Mwende Katwiwa writes about Dr. Tricia Rose’s book “The Hip Hop Wars,” the arguments supporting and defending hip hop, and the divide between hip hop and feminism.
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The 50th anniversary of our University’s desegregation is exactly the moment to have an honest conversation about diversity and inclusion on campus today.
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What do we lose when community schools are no longer attended by students from that community?
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How is it that Anna Julia Cooper is still not a well-known and well-regarded household name? Written by Research Fellow Eliza Arnold.
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While we debate the merits and vices of high-stakes testing, I hope we also consider how our political narratives — on all sides — can deny agency and credibility to some of our most vulnerable families and dedicated public servants.
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2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the decision reached by the Board of Administrators of Tulane University to change its racially exclusive admissions policies. This documentary looks at who and what made it happen.
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Driving for a total of 36 hours only to be at the final destination for less than 24 hours did not seem like a trip I was going to be able to pitch well to many people. Miraculously, I found 20 people from Tulane Green Club, Loyola University, and the Sierra Club to make the trip with me from New Orleans to the Keystone XL pipeline rally in Washington, DC. The rally, organized by 350.org and the Sierra Club was created to demand President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline would bring tar sands oil down from Alberta through Saskatchewan, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma to refineries in Texas for export through the Gulf of Mexico.
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Part of a series of video interviews with women of color on Tulane University’s campus about the upcoming election.
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