Kenya Allmond (me)

I attended a talk and book signing for The Anthology of Rap with editors Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois.  Also among the panelists were Common and Kurtis Blow who both gave performances which I captured on video.

1992: My boyfriend (at the time) and I were driving 200 miles from Washington, DC, to our hometown Chesapeake, Virginia, in the dead of winter.  He didn’t have heat in his car so we stopped in Lightfoot, Virginia, for coffee to warm up.  While we’re in a 7-Eleven, a white man came in and asked [...]