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Author: Yvonne Bynoe
Published: 2004
Pages: 228
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
When the seminal hip-hop group Public Enemy released their ground-breaking recording It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in June of 1988, it marked a critical moment when the political verve of the 1960s had finally been synthesized with the street rhythms of the [...]
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