Black History Month Presented as part of our Tucson Humanities Festival spring series, the College of Humanities and Africana Studies Program are hosting several events in February to celebrate Black History Month, including special guest speakers and more. God, Soul Food and Superheroes Therosia Reynolds, Artist, Activist and Entrepreneur Tuesday, February 1, 6:30 PM Poetry
Talks on the Black experience, inequality, the influence of hip-hop and more are slated for the university's celebration of Black History Month. Also on tap: traditional African drum and dance performances.
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Brian âB Highâ Hightower interviews up-and-coming artists on his new-music show and has one of the largest digital radio platforms in the South on YouTube, with more than 150,000 subscribers. In addition to his work as a DJ, Hightower is a professor at Clark Atlanta University, where he teaches communications in the Mass Media Arts department.
BH: [My Atlanta hip-hop origin story] started with
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. That was the first CD that I ever bought in my whole life. I went to the mall over there at Greenbriar, went to Peppermint Records, and I picked up
Hot 107.9 on-air personality
Brian ‘B High’ Hightower interviews up-and-coming artists on his new-music show and has one of the largest digital radio platforms in the South on YouTube, with more than 150,000 subscribers. In addition to his work as a DJ, Hightower is a professor at Clark Atlanta University, where he teaches communications in the Mass Media Arts department.
BH: [My Atlanta hip-hop origin story] started with
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. That was the first CD that I ever bought in my whole life. I went to the mall over there at Greenbriar, went to Peppermint Records, and I picked up
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik.
When Greg Street sat down with OutKast and played that whole album on the radio, I remember that, for me, being an experience, being able to hear that. Because that was back in them days where you would listen to the radio for the information. Greg was delivering that stuff on time, and he was the guy that introduced my generation to Southern h