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How Hip-Hop Got to Harvard: Celebrating Marcy Morgan

Colleagues, artists, friends gather to celebrate Marcyliena Morgan, founding director of University’s Archive & Research Institute

“Calling Morgan the “scholar queen of hip-hop,” Hutchins Center Director Henry Louis Gates Jr. presented her with an architectural model of the archive’s sleek, gallery-like space, completed in 2002. It was also announced that a plaque honoring Morgan would be installed near the entrance in 2024.”

Read more at Harvard Gazette

Marcyliena H. Morgan (right), founding director Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, with her husband, Lawrence D. Bobo, dean of social science and the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences.
Photos by Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer