Marcyliena Morgan
Harvard University
“The university setting is ideal because it’s where you take time to examine things that change culture, art and life. People will say with a lot of disdain, ‘Why is the Hip-Hop Archive at Harvard.’ I ask, ‘Where do you think it should be?’ When you’re talking about hip-hop [and black studies] at its highest skill level, why wouldn’t it be at Harvard? A lot of topics are being discussed because of hip-hop. Whether it’s sexuality, responsibility or crime, it’s discussion that hip-hop keeps in the mix.”
