AIDS
Alexander, Honey
Alexander, Lamar
alienation
All Eyez on Me
Alliance for a Media Literate America
Ambrosius, Marsha
American Airlines
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
American Legislative Exchange
Council
Amnesty International
André 3000 (André Benjamin)
anemia
Angelou, Maya
AOL
apartheid in South Africa
Artis, Ahmed
artists, role of Black
the artivist
Asante, M. K., Jr. (author)
Afrocentricity and
medium of an artivist
the police and
as professor
“Two Sets of Notes,”
Ashhurst-Watson, Carmen
As Nasty as They Wanna Be
asthma
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlantic Records
Attica prison
Austin, Algernon
Austin, James
Avant, Clarence
Bad Boy Records
Bailey, Patrick
Baker, Ella
Baldwin, James
Ball, Dr. Jared
Baltimore, Maryland
inner-city violence
Bambaataa, Afrika
Bandele, Asha
Banner, David
Baraka, Amina
Baraka, Amiri (formerly LeRoi Jones)
Baraka, Ras
Baraldini, Silvia
Barrel of a Pen (Thiong’o)
Barron, Charles
Baudrillard, Jean
B-boys
Beastie Boys
Beck, Allen
Bee, Brucie
Belafonte, Harry
Bell, Sean
Benjamin, Andre (Andre 3000)
Bennett, Lerone, Jr.
Bennett, William
Bentham, Jeremy
BET
Big Boi (Antwan Patton)
Big Momma’s House
Big Sea, The
Biko, Steve
Billboard
Bin Hassan, Omar
Birth of a Nation
Blackademics (Web site)
Black Arts Collective
Black Bourgeoisie, The (Frazier)
Black Boy (Wright)
“Black Feminism: the Politics of Articulation,”
Black Panther Party for Self Defense (Black Panthers)
as FBI target
founding of
Ten Point Program
Black Power
popularizing of term
Black Student’s Guide to Positive Education (Kondon)
Blake, James
Blokhedz
Bloomberg, Michael
Blow, Kurtis
blues
exploitation of blues musicians
blues, the
Blues People (Baraka)
Bluest Eye, The (Morrison)
Bluford, Guion “Guy,” Jr.
Boeing
Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act (HR 4437)
Boys in the Hood
Bracero, Demetrio
breakbeat DJing
breakdancing
Brecht, Bertolt
Britain
Bronx, New York
Bronx River Community Center
Brown, James
Brown, Jim
Brown, Ruth
Brown v. Board of Education
Buddha
Burton, LeVar
Bush, Alyce
Bush, George W.
businesses, Black-owned
Bynoe, Yvonne
California
prison guards union
three-strikes law
California Republic flag
Campbell, Don
Campbell, Luther
Campellock (dance style)
Canibus
capital punishment cases
Carlos, John
Carmichael, Stokely
Cash Money
Catlett, Elizabeth, “Caught Up,”
CBS
celebrity culture
censorship, corporate
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Media and Public Affairs
Center for Media Literacy
Centers for Disease Control
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Operation Phoenix
Challenger
“Changes,”
Cheba, Eddie
check-cashing businesses
Chesimard, Joanne, see Shakur, Assata Chess, Marshal
Chess Records
Chevron
Chic
Chicago, Illinois
Children of the Ghetto (Zangwill)
Chinese restaurants, take-out
“Christmas Rappin’,”
Chuck D
Civil Rights Act of
civil rights movement
freedom songs of
intergenerational dialogue
Clark, L.
Clear Channel
Clemens, Harold
Cleveland, Ohio
climate change
Clinton, Bill, administration of
Clinton Correctional Facility for
Women
clothing
symbolic of prison
Clutchette, John
Cobb, William Jelani
cocaine (powder)
crack, see crack cocaine federal sentencing laws
Cochran, Johnnie
Cohen, Lyor
COINTELPRO
Cold Crush Brothers
Coleman, Ornette
Coles, Tiffany
colonialism
Color of Change
Color Purple, The (Walker) (novel, film, and play)
Columbia Records
Combs, Sean
Common (rapper)
Compaq
Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)
Congressional Black Caucus
Conquest of Cool, The (Frank)
consumerism
white audience for Black music
contras, Honduran
Conyers, John
Coppin State University
Corbin, Gregory “Just Greg,”
Cornelius, Don
corporations
advertising, see advertising censorship by
commercialization of hip hop
mass media, see mass media outsourcing of jobs overseas
ownership of Black music
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)
Coryat, Thomas
Cosby, Bill
Cosby Show, The
Cotton, Shaquanda
Coup, the
crack cocaine
federal sentencing laws
Reagan administration foreign policy and flooding of inner cities with
Criminal Minded
Cruise, Dr. Harold
Cuba
Dahl, Steve
Dale, John
Dash, Julie
Daugherty, Reverend Herbert
Daughters of the Dust
Davey D
Davis, Angela
Davis, Kiri
Davis, Mark
Davis, Mike
Davis, Ossie
Dead President
Dead Prez
altercation and civil suit against the NYPD, “Death of a Nation,”
Death Row by Interscope
December 12th Movement
Dee, Ruby
Def Jam Records
de Klerk, F. W.
De La Soul
Dell Computer
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
depression
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit Police Department
Devastating Tito
Devlin, Bernadette
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diabetes
Diallo, Amadou
Dialogue
Dialogue, A (Baldwin)
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Dickerson, Artell
Diddley, Bo
Dioum, Baba
disabled and SSI
Disco Fever (nightclub)
disco music
djeli tradition of West Africa
DJ Hollywood
DJ Junebug
DJ Lord
DJ Yella
DLB
domestic violence
domestic workers
Donne, John
Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Do the Right Thing
Douglas, Emory
Douglass, Frederick
Dowden, Edward
Dre, Dr.
Dreamers of the Ghetto (Zangwill)
drugs
juvenile prisons and
mass media stories
rehab programs
sentencing laws
“three strikes” laws and
War on Drugs
see also specific drugs Drumgo, Fleeta
drum machines, programmable
DuBois, W. E. B.
Dukakis, Michael
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Dutchman
ear infections
Eazy-E
Eco, Umberto
Eddie Bauer
education
Brown v. Board of Education
challenging mainstream
conditions in ghetto schools
culturally relevant
dropouts
funding of schools
health of children and
purposes of
segregated
self-education
Supreme Court desegregation decision
“Two Sets of Notes,”
white version of history
Ehrlichman, John
Eichmann, Adolf
Eisenhower, Dwight D., administration of
Elektra Records
emcees
categorizing of
dominating effect of mainstream on
EMI Group
eminent domain
Empire of Their Own, An (Gabler)
Em Sea Water
“Enter the New Negro,”
environmental issues
Eric B.
Eric B. and Rakim
Esquire
Evans, Linda
exclusionary zoning
Eyez, Tight
Fab
Freddy
factory jobs
Fanon, Frantz, xiii
Farrar, Dean
fashion, prison clothing and
Fauset, Jessie
Fearless Four
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Federal Housing Administration
Cent
First Amendment
Fisk (student organization)
Years Later
Flavor Flav
Focused Digizine
food stamps
Forbes
Ford, Gerald
40 Acres & A Mule
Foucault, Michel
Fourth Amendment rights
Franklin, John Hope
Franklin, Karl Kamau
Frazier, E. Franklin
freedom
role of music in liberating Black people
freedom songs
Freelon, Pierce
Frye, Marquette, Ronald, and Rena
Fuentes, Rick
Fugees, The
“Funky Drummer,”
Future for Africa, A (Onimode)
Gabler, Neal
“gangsta rap,”
Garnet, Henry Highland
Garvey, Marcus
Geffen Records
Georgia Senate Bill
Gerbner, George
“Get on the Good Foot,”
Ghana
ghetto
history of creation of
Jewish
in mass media
origins of word
people living in the African-American
prison as surrogate for
used as racist, derogatory word
“‘Ghetto’—The New N-Word,”
Giovanni, Nikki
Girl Like Me, A
globalization
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goldman, Emma
Goldwater, Barry
Goode, Wilson
“Good Times,”
gospel
Gossett, Louis, Jr.
graffiti writing
Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
Grand Wizard Theodore
grassroots approach
Great Depression
Great Peso, The
Green, Juanita
Gregory, Dick
Griffith, D. W.
Grigorenko, Gen. Petro G.
Guevara, Che
Gulf War
Gulf War Did Not Take Place, The (Baudrillard)
Hackett, Judge Barbara
Haldeman, H. R.
Halevi, Kohain
Haley, Alex
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Hammond, John
Hansberry, Lorraine
Harper, Ben
Harris, Donte
Harris polls
Hay, Dr. Samuel
health care
free
poverty and
the uninsured
universal
heart disease
Hemsley, Sherman
Herc, Kool DJ
Hewlett-Packard
Higher Learning
highlife
highway system, interstate
Hill, Lauryn
“hip,”
Hip: The History (Leland)
hip era of the 1950s and 1960s
hip hop
commercialization of, see corporations, commercialization of hip hop
international influence of
origins of
ownership of
political context of
purpose of
time line, see time line of events shaping hip hop
Hip-Hop: Beyond the Beats & Rhymes
Hip Hop for Respect
hip-hop generation
disowning of label
intergenerational dialogue
police relations
Hip-Hop Generation, The (Kitwana)
“Hip-Hop Lives,”
hip-hop locking
hiplife
HIV-AIDS
Ho Chi Minh
Holiday, Billie
Hollywood and the Jewish model of
ownership, “Homeland and Hip-Hop,”
homelessness
Honeywell
“honky,”
hooks, bell
Hoover, J. Edgar
“hop,”
Hough community, Cleveland
housing
redlining
Urban Renewal and
Housing Act of
Houston, Charles Hamilton
Howard, Paul
Hughes, Langston
Hughes Brothers
humanity toward others (ubuntu)
human rights
hunger and malnutrition
Hunters Point, San Francisco
Hurricane Katrina
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hurt, Byron
Hustlers Convention
hyperactivity
hyperreality
hypertension
IBM
Ice Cube
Ice-T
“If We Must Die,”
Illmatic
image control
Imajimation Studios
immigrants and immigration
Latino
in prison population
Immigration and Naturalization
Service (INS)
Immortal Technique
Imperiale, Anthony
imperialism, American
individual’s ability to make a
difference
“I Need a Beat,”
inferiority complex
institutional racism, persistence of
Internet
Iran-Contra investigation
Iraq w
Iraq War
Israel
Jackson, George
Jackson, Jesse
Jackson, Michael
Jackson, Samuel L.
Jackson State College
Jadakiss
Jamaica
James, Rick
Jay-Z
jazz
exploitation of jazz musicians
JCPenney
Jeannette, Gertrude
Jeffersons, The
Jena Six
“Jesse,”
Jewish ghettos
Jim Crow laws
Jobareh, Junkung
jobs
after release from prison and
factory
health and
mechanization of low-skilled
outsourcing of, overseas
service sector
Johnson, Andrew
Johnson, Bob
Johnson, James Weldon
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johnson hair products
Jones, John (J.O. the rapper)
Jones, Quincy
Jones, Russell Tyrone
Joplin, Janis
Juice
Justice Department, U.S.
Kalamashaka
Karenga, Maulana
Kass, Ras
Kastro
KDAY, Los Angeles
Kelley, Norman
Kent State University
Kgositsile, Keorapetse
Khrushchev, Nikita
King, Jordan, xi-xii
King, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
assassination of
holiday honoring
Malcolm X and
King, Rodney
King Dream Chorus and the Holiday
Crew
King Drew Magnet High School
King of Rock
Kissinger, Henry
Kitwana, Bakari
Knight, Suge
Koch, Ed
Kondo, Dr. Zak
Kozol, Jonathan
Krazy Eddie
KRS-One
Krush Groove
Ku Klux Klan
Kurtis Blow
Kwanzaa
Kwanza Unit
Kweli, Talib
Lafayette College
LaGrone, Kheven Lee
Language of Clothes (Lurie)
La Rock, Scott
Last Poets, The
Last Poets, The
Latinos
immigrants
Law Enforcement Alliance of America
(LEAA)
Lawrence, Martin
leadership
lead poisoning
learning problems
Lee, Spike
Leland, John
Let’s Get Free
“Letter to a History Journal,”
Lewis, John
Lewis, Michael
Lewis, Tyrone
Licensed to Ill
Life of St. Paul (Farrar)
“Life’s a Bitch,”
Like Water Running off My Back
(Asante)
Lil’ Kwesi
Lil’ Wayne
Lincoln, Abraham
liquiding
liquor stores
LL Cool J
Lloyd, Rashard
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Parenti)
Locke, Alain
London, Jack
Lorde, Audre
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)
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