UpFront

Fund Drive Special: Jeff Chang + Davey D on politics, hip-hop history, their new book and more; Plus: From the KPFA Archives: Langston Hughes in Berkeley, 1958

0:08 – Fund Drive Special: Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip-Hop History

Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. His books include Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Who We Be, and We Gon’ Be Alright.

Davey D Cook is hip hop historian, adjunct professor at San Francisco State, host of KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio, and co-author with Jeff Chang of the new Young Adult Edition of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip Hop History. Yours for a donation of $100 to KPFA.

1:08 – Fund Drive Special: Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was a poet, novelist, playwright, activist, and a columnist for the Chicago Defender during the rise of the civil rights movement. He was a luminary of the Harlem renaissance; someone who stood out for writing poetry for the people, rather than for poets and scholars and critics. This is a recording made by KFPA, when Hughes spoke at UC Berkeley, on December 10, 1958. 

 

Playlist

Artist Song Album Label
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