19 Jul Dr. A.D. Carson on “Tavis Smiley”
Dr. A.D. Carson – Assistant professor of Hip-Hop & the Global South at the University of Virginia and award-winning performance artist and educator. His work focuses on race, literature, history, rhetorics & performance. Since the rise of Hip-Hop in the early 1980s, critics of Rap sought to tie the music to violent crime. He joins Tavis to break down how Rap is oftentimes used as a scapegoat for many issues, especially in recent mass shootings.
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