<span>As Hip-hop turns 50 this year, we recognize that its emergence in the early 1970s coincided with the end of the Civil Rights era (and, in many ways, the African colonial era as well.) and, thus, the end of what is widely considered the high point of Pan-Africanism. In the five decades since, this presentation argues, Hip-hop has been a prominent avenue through which global blackness—and the solidarities thereof— has been affirmed and fortified.</span>
