Fight the Power

Taking inspiration from Public Enemy''s lead vocalist Chuck D - who once declared that ''rap is the CNN of young Black America'' - this volume brings together leading legal commentators to make sense of some of the most pressing law and policy issues in the context of hip-hop music and the ongoing struggle for Black equality. Contributors include MSNBC commentator Paul Butler who grapples with race and policing through the lens of N.W.A.''s song ''Fuck tha Police'' ACLU President Deborah Archer who considers the 2014 uprisings in Ferguson Missouri and many other prominent scholars who speak of poverty LGBTQ+ rights mass incarceration and other crucial topics of the day. Written to ''say it plain'' this collection will be valuable not only to students and scholars of law African-American studies and hip-hop but also to everyone who cares about creating a more just society.