Throughout the month of March, HARI will be celebrating women with a multi-part Women's History Month Series. The HARI 2017 Women’s History Month series will establish a knowledge base, highlight key woman figures in and around hiphop and explore the significance of women in the development of the genre and its sound. The series will also celebrate the centrality of women in continually and creatively shaping and changing the world.

Throughout the month of March, HARI will be celebrating the women of hiphop with a multi-part Women's History Month Series. The HARI 2017 Women’s History Month series will establish a knowledge base, highlight key woman figures in and around hiphop and explore the significance of women in the development of the genre and its sound. The series will also celebrate the centrality of women in continually and creatively shaping and changing the world.

Professor Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Professor Marcyliena Morgan, Founding Director of the HipHop Archive at Harvard University.

Marcyliena Morgan, Founding Director of the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard University, discusses how a Kung Fu video relates to hip-hop, female power, the black community, and building a better America.

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 12:00pm

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 - 12:00 pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
 

Happy Valentine’s Day! This year’s HARI Valentine’s Day playlist seeks to show the range, depth, and commitment of Hiphop artists as they use their craft to express their relationships to love and to their love interests. We’ve included well-known classics by A Tribe Called Quest, Big Daddy Kane, and LL Cool J alongside newer hits by Chance the Rapper, Mac Miller, and J. Cole. Enjoy!

"We Got This!": HARI's 2017 Black History Month Series
 

This Black History Month, we are doing more than celebrating; we are taking ownership.

Professor Marcyliena Morgan will be speaking at "Hiphop, Knowledge, and the Academy" hosted by TORCH - The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities at the University of Oxford on February 17 from 2:30pm - 5pm.