From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering

A premier chronicler of African-American culture explores America's debt to the styles of black Generation X. This book is the long-awaited sequel to "The Death

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