"She wanted to give deeper legitimacy to studying this globally influential style of creative production,"
"Marcy will always be remembered as the genius who conceived of the world's first hip-hop archive and research center,"
"She took a holistic view of the hip-hop community. When she did events, there were scholars, there were artists."
Marcyliena H. Morgan founded Harvard's Hiphop Archive & Research Institute to legitimize academic study of hip-hop and to unite scholars and artists. Morgan served as an emerita professor of social sciences and of African and African American Studies and earned advanced degrees in linguistics from the University of Essex and the University of Pennsylvania. She grew up with five sisters on Chicago's South Side. Morgan died Sept. 28 at age 75 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. The Hutchins Center gallery-like space has been renamed the Marcyliena H. Morgan Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute to honor her legacy.
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