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EPISODE · Nov 19, 2025 · 57 MIN

The Making of "The Graphic History of Hip Hop" with Dr. Walter Greason & Tim Fielder

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📬 Subscribe to the Substack: https://www.hiphopcansaveamerica.com/newsletter📘 The book: *Hip Hop Can Save America!* https://www.mannyfaces.com/book🎤 Watch my TEDx Talk: https://youtu.be/5rRxG1i5iRo?si=jOkW43tVbrYeqdIT---What happens when Hip Hop’s deepest history meets the power of visual storytelling? In this episode of Hip Hop America, Manny Faces sits down with historian Dr. Walter Greason and visual Afrofuturist Tim Fielder, the duo behind "The Graphic History of Hip Hop," a project that has exploded across classrooms, museums, Comic-Cons, and global Hip Hop circles.Together, we dig into:🎨 How a simple classroom project became a nationwide phenomenon📚 Why they chose to tell Hip Hop’s story as a graphic history, not a comic🌍 The global impact — from NYC schools to the Smithsonian, San Diego Comic-Con, and Senegal🧠 The role of Hip Hop as pedagogy, historical analysis, and Afrofuturist innovation🔥 How young people are responding (“middle schoolers literally stormed the room…”)🕊 Why Hip Hop keeps becoming the blueprint for the future — culturally, politically, and academicallyThis conversation hits everything from James Brown to Nelson Mandela, Public Enemy to the Native Tongues, the Bronx to Afrofuturism, and the ongoing fight to place Hip Hop where it belongs: at the center of global cultural change.If you care about Hip Hop, art, education, Black history, visual culture, or the future of storytelling — this is the one.Get the book: https://www.graphichistorycompany.comFollow the guests: Dr. Walter D. Greason — https://www.walterdgreason.com/Tim Fielder (DieselFunk) — https://www.dieselfunk.comMy book: Hip Hop Can Save America! Inspiration for the Nation from a Culture of Innovation" - https://www.mannyfaces.com/bookThe Hip Hop Can Save America! media ecosystem (podcast, newsletter, Discord, and more): https://www.hiphopcansaveamerica.comSupport this important cultural journalism: https://www.patreon.com/mannyfaces

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