Vibe magazine is merging with Rolling Stone to help bolster its hip-hop coverage to include podcasts, long-form journalism and social media. The magazine was founded by Quincy Jones in 1992 at a time when few mainstream publications were covering the rise of hip-hop and R&B.
Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of African and African American studies at Duke University, joins us to discuss what this merger could mean for the future of Black cultural criticism.
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