🌟 [ 62 ]   Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World | from Chuck D and Lorrie Boula | Episode 1 of 4 [ @PBS ]

Official Website: [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] | #FightThePowerPBS Chuck D leads a host of rap stars in this account of Hip Hop’s origins. Their memories of growing up in 70s New York portray a divided city mired in crisis. Yet it was the most oppressed neighborhoods that fostered a creative spirit that spawned graffiti, b-boys and the iconoclastic track The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in 1982. This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] Subscribe to the PBS channel for more clips: [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] Enjoy full episodes of your favorite PBS shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS App: [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] FOLLOW US: Facebook: [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] Twitter: [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] Instagram: [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] TikTok: [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] Shop: [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] Fight the Power: How Hip Changed the World | The Foundation In the first film of the series, Chuck D leads a host of rap stars and leading African-American and Latino cultural commentators in this account of the origins of Hip Hop. Chuck evokes a picture of how the turbulence of the 60s, the decade of his early childhood, would see the civil rights struggle evolve into a more hardened battle between supporters of Black Power and the Nixon administration. It spawned music by artists such as The Last Poets and the Isley Brothers that became the inspirational soundtrack of Chuck’s youth. Despite the optimism of the Black is Beautiful movement in the 1970s, white flight and policies that sapped investment from the neighborhoods they left behind meant swathes of the Bronx soon looked like war zones. Street artist Lee Quiñones explains how graffiti began to flourish on subway trains, conveying the artistry of the Bronx directly into the heart of Manhattan. Those vibrant designs flashing through the urban landscape were the first messages to the outer world that a new cu .

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