Can you imagine what our influence could be if more groups like The Fugees or Tribe Called Quest created music and lyrics to inspire a new wave in Pan-African thinking? ... Afeni Shakur, Tupac's mother, put it best when she said, "It doesn't make sense to suggest that rap's violent lyrics are to blame for society's ills. ... Much of the controversy has centered on violent lyrics. ...

• Word Count: 3526
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the late twentieth century, South Africa was a country devoid of many of the freedoms that we in the United States take for granted. In 1948 South Africa instituted one of the most morally repulsive policies in international history. Apartheid, as it was called, ignored the human rights...

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Harlem, a neighborhood of New York City and Compton, California are two areas in the United States that have fallen victim to racial discrimination and marginalization. During the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, well-educated African-American people began producing literature that explained the hor...

• Word Count: 2640
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the song Keep Ya Head Up by Tupac Shakur he raps "And since we all came from a woman, Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman I wonder why we take from our women, Why we rape our women, do we hate our women" When I think of rape and compare it to those lyrics it saddens me because women are the one to give birth to men and for some of these men to abuse women just shows the lack of appreciation for women in the world. ...

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Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial "melting pot" and it has become a force with which to be reckoned. Today, American music represents people who would have never dreamed of being heard or taken seriously even as little fifty or sixty years ago. ...

• Word Count: 4261
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School