Hiphop Turns 50!

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Thursday, December 14 – Saturday, December 16, 2023

A Celebration in Honor of Marcyliena H. Morgan

Please join us for a celebration in honor of Marcyliena H. Morgan, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, and Founding Director of the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute.

Colleagues, activists, artists, and educators will come together in seven panels across three days to recognize the multiple contributions Professor Morgan has made as a linguistic anthropologist, an ethnographer, and an architect and agent of change in the academy, capturing the spirit of creativity, positivity, Black achievement and expression, art, music, youth, social change and social justice that are manifest in her scholarship and have been of critical importance to all of her work.

The conference is free and open to the public. A recording will be made available at youtube.com/hutchinscenter.

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Friday, November 3, 2023, 6:00pm

Opening Reception

Day One DNA: 50 Years in Hiphop Culture

from the private collection of Ice T & DJ Afrika Islam

Curated by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn

Day One DNA: 50 Years in Hiphop Culture is an immersive multimedia exhibition celebrating 50 years of hiphop culture through the archives of hiphop icons and longtime collaborators Ice T and DJ Afrika Islam. Their collection has been assembled over decades and is one of the world’s largest private repositories of hiphop ephemera and artifacts.

On view from November 3, 2023, to May 31, 2024

Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins Center, 102 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138