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Don ‘Little Cloud’ Davenport - Founder of the Black Native American Association
I am a Seminole with Muskogee Creek/Chickasaw, and African (Nubian/Sudan) Ancestry and of the Bird Clan. I was born in Jackson, Michigan which was on one of the routes of the Underground Railroad where slaves fled to Canada.
My mother is Decilla Ann Davenport, Seminole/Creek/Chickasaw [...]

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What Up, Gangsta? (commentary by Brandon M. Terry)

“In gangsta rap, battles for authenticity can take dangerous turns. As the genre moved from stories of petty crime into super-gangster fables, rappers’ real lives simply could not keep up. What passes for authenticity is really a fragile character developed for public consumption. Record labels, rappers, and even (mostly white) consumers to some extent know [...]

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