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Remixing the Revolution

On October 14, the Unfinished: America at 250 partnership hosted “Remixing the Revolution,” an inspiring and entertaining evening of hip hop performances and conversation with artists The Reminders (married duo Samir and Aja) and Tem Blessed, moderated by Adam Bradley, professor of English and the founding director of the Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture […]

Remixing the Revolution

Two hundred years after the American Revolution ignited Boston, a sonic revolution shook the streets of the South Bronx with the birth of hip hop. Hip hop’s beats and rhymes take up the unresolved debates and open questions of the American Revolution – How are our voices heard? What should liberty look and sound like? What does it […]