A.D. Carson, University of Virginia Hip-hop culture is often recognized as being born on Aug. 11, 1973. That was about seven months after Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that protected the right to choose to have an abortion. Accordingly, reproductive rights have long been part of...
A.D. Carson, University of Virginia The day after the May 24, 2022, mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson promptly blamed the violence on rap music and video games. “Kids are exposed to all kinds of horrible stuff nowadays,” the Texas...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Here is a project I did with Sundress Publications. Read their description of the series here. Click the image to read the Rap & Storytellingly Invention craft chap.If you have any problems with the audio I've uploaded the...
"Snider Hall was almost at full capacity as students, faculty and members of the community gathered to watch Dr. A.D. Carson perform "This Is the Next Time: Reflections on Resistance Through Rhymes and Revolutions." Carson, who is a hip-hop professor at the University of Virginia,...
I’ve been thinking a lot about “Talking to Ghosts.” It’s a song I’m constantly reminded of, actually. For me, it connects memories from many different points in my life—childhood at my grandmother’s home in southern Illinois, growing up in central Illinois, living on the Calhoun plantation...