This new Black youth culture raises some critical questions: how has Black America changed, what new circumstances and conditions have affected its evolution, and finally, what is the legacy of that culture at the dawn of the millennium? If Pac and B.I.G. are to be martyrs for the hip-hop generation, let them be martyrs in beginning an intergenerational movement to answer these questions and resolve those problems that threaten to undermine the very fabric and future of Black America. - Bakari Kitwana, 2002
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Tanji Gilliam is a fifth year Ph.D. student in History of Culture at The University of Chicago. She received her M.A. in History of Culture in 2002 and her M.F.A. in Film, Video and New Media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. Her dissertation project is entitled "That Crack In The Concrete: Hip Hop, History and Politics in Black Urban Video Culture".
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