Khanya Khondlo Mtshali, Author at HIGHLARK // Raise Your Own Flag

·05/01/2019

From minstrel shows to hip hop, response records transformed American music through irony & wit

Roxanne Shanté (Lolita Gooden) in New York in 1998 (Michael Ochs archives/Getty) Without response records, there would be no Jay... Read More

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·04/16/2019

The Revolution Will Wear a Dashiki

The New Breed fashion boutique in Harlem, 1968. (Yale Joel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) How a 1960s Harlem couple popularized... Read More

INFORMATIONAL

·10/18/2018

THE RADICAL HISTORY OF THE HEADWRAP

Pop singer Erykah Badu performing in a head wrap in 2001. (Peter Van Breukelen/Redferns via Getty Images) Born into slavery, then... Read More

INFORMATIONAL

·10/01/2018

THIS OUTFIT DEFINED AN ERA, CREATED A RIOT, & WAS BANNED BY THE GOV’T

Featured Photo: A woman wearing a zoot at the Harlem Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1939. (Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris/Carnegie... Read More

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