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Listen: Harvard Student’s Rap Album Thesis That Earned Him an Honors Graduation

(ANTIMEDIA) One remarkable undergraduate student has made history at Harvard University after submitting a rap album as his senior thesis in the English department. Twenty-year-old Obasi Shaw will be graduating from the Ivy League school with honors after his creative work was awarded a grade of summa cum laude minus, the second highest in the department.

Porkins Policy Radio episode 84 The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders with John Potash

Author John Potash joins me in the first hour for a discussion of his book The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders. John describes the radical political life that Tupac was born into; mother Afeni Shakur and step father Mutulu Shakur were both prominent Black Panthers. We talk about the impact that this had on Tupac and how this would ultimately shape his life and his untimely death. John talk about the political messages with in Tupac’s songs, as well as his efforts behind the scenes to broker peace between gangs such as The Bloods and Crips.