Roxanne Shante Earns PhD, Funded By Old Record Label
Check out this incredible story via Black Voices' Carmen Dixon: I don't know about you, but I get tired of hearing one rap hit after another glorifying conflict between two poor people, from the same poor neighborhood, inflicting physical violence on each other in the name of "respect." In reality, achievement, service to others and living honorably is what earns respect. The first female celebrity of rap, Roxanne Shante, lives this. She earned her ...
