Black Pitch: Recent Episodes
Kayla Williams
Hello and Welcome to Black Pitch, a podcast about music and pop culture. In this series, I will be exploring popular protest music by black artists from the Civil Rights Movement to the 1980s. In this episode, I focus on and dissect Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5's 'The Message', N.W.A's 'F*ck tha Police', and Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power'.
Recommended Reading:
Racism in the Prison Industrial Complex (Angela Davis): https://www.colorlines.com/articles/masked-racism-reflections-prison-industrial-complex
Structural Racism in the Prison Industrial Complex (Tre A Carver): https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/40822
N.W.A Court Case:
N.W.A.'S WINNING CASE - The Washington Post
Rap Music and the First Amendment | The First Amendment Encyclopedia (mtsu.edu)
Hello and Welcome to Black Pitch, a podcast about music and pop culture. In this series, I will be exploring popular protest music by black artists from the Civil Rights Movement to the 1980s. In this episode, I focus on and dissect James Brown's 'Say it Loud I'm Black and I'm Proud', Nina Simone's 'To Be Young, Gifted, and Black', and Gil Scott Heron's 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'.
Recommended Reading:
https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/foundations-black-power
https://oxfordaasc.com/page/2373
Hello and Welcome to Black Pitch, a podcast about music and pop culture. In this series, I will be exploring popular protest music by black artists from the Civil Rights Movement to the 1980s. In this episode, I focus on and dissect Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit', Nina Simone's 'Mississippi Goddam', and Sam Cooke's 'A Change is Gonna Come"
Recommended Reading:
https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/civil-rights-memorial/civil-rights-martyrs
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/nyregion/malcolm-x-assassination-case-reopened.html
https://time.com/5778688/malcolm-x-assassination/
The Hunting of Billie Holiday - POLITICO Magazine