Police Brutality & Hip-Hop in the Black Community

Presenter: Nancy Lara

Presenter Status: Undergraduate student

Academic Year: 20-21

Semester: Spring

Faculty Mentor: Sandra Moore

Department: American Multicultural Studies

Funding Source/Sponsor: SYRCE Symposium

President's Strategic Plan Goal: Diversity and Social Justice

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Abstract:
 I decided to write about was Hip Hop and police brutality. I decided to implement these two topics together because in the late 80s and early 90s the black community had faced and is still facing police brutality. Hip Hop/rap for the black community was a way for them to have a voice and to be heard. During the late 80s and early 90s, there were no phones or social media to record and post videos online of police brutality, injustice, among other things that the black community experienced and went through. Hip Hop artists saw they had a voice to express themselves and let people around the world see what life was like for them.