Renowned scholar and cultural historian Marcyliena Morgan, founder of Harvard University’s Hip Hop Archive and Research Institute, has passed away at the age of 75 due to complications related to ...

Dr. Marcyliena Morgan, the founding director of Harvard’s Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, which now bears her name, died September 28 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. The linguistic ...

Marcyliena H. Morgan, founding director of Harvard's Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Marcyliena H. Morgan, founding director of Harvard’s Hip Hop ...

The Grammys are catching up with public opinion by recognizing hip-hop artists in its top categories this year. At Harvard University's Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, the genre and its history ...

When Marcyliena H. Morgan first began her scholarship on hip-hop in the 1990s, nobody believed the genre would have real staying power, according to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the ...

This story is the first in NPR's new Morning Edition series produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) called The Keepers, stories of activist, archivists, rogue librarians, curators ...

When Marcyliena Morgan first floated the idea of establishing a hip-hop archive at Harvard University more than a decade ago, she heard predictable grumbling from academics who weren’t convinced the ...

Professor Marcyliena Morgan understands how important hip-hop culture is to society. As the director of the The Hip-Hop Archives at Harvard, Morgan facilitates the examination of hip-hop culture and ...

Marcyliena Morgan is Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and the Executive Director of the Hiphop Archive . Professor Morgan earned both her B.A.

Dr. James Peterson, Jessica Green, Marcyliena Morgan, Kenny Leon, Saycon Sengbloh, Saul Williams, the panelists at the Schomburg Center HOLLER IF YA HEAR ME Theater Panel HOLLER IF YA HEAR ME, the new ...

One of the early academics to recognize the art form as a topic worthy of study, she documented the cultural phenomenon as it ...

Marcyliena H. Morgan was teaching an urban speech communities course at the University of California Los Angeles, nearly 35 years ago when her students began focusing on musicians in their assignments ...