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How Hip-Hop Fights The Power — And Also Serves It

For hip-hop's not-official-but-kind-of-official 50th birthday, we dig into its many contradictions. From the legend of the South Bronx block party where hip-hop was born to the multi-billion-dollar global industry and tool for U.S. diplomacy it has become, America's relationship with hip-hop — and the people who make it — is complicated. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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  How Jewish Communities Are Divided Over Support of Israel

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  The Rise and Fall of the Panama Canal

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  Reflecting on the legacy of O.J. Simpson

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  How Frederick Douglass launched generations of Black and Irish solidarity

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  WTF does race have to do with taxes?

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  Who does language belong to? A fight over the Lakota Language

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  Getting let down by the 'Great Expectations' of electoral politics

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  In the world of medicine, race-based diagnoses are more than skin deep

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  This conspiracy theory about eating bugs is also about race

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  The musical legacy of Japanese American incarceration

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  Why menthol cigarettes have a chokehold on Black smokers

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  Before the apps, people used newspapers to find love

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  How college footballers led the fight against racism in 1969

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  What it's like to be a Black woman with bipolar disorder

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  Taylor Swift and the unbearable whiteness of girlhood

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  A former church girl's search for a new spiritual home