Hiphop Archive and Research Institute

06/13/2025

The source of THE Source!
🎤Let’s talk about it
📍Cambridge Kiosk • Harvard Square

established the magazine on Harvard’s campus in 1988 🤯

This is a collaborative event with UMass Boston, Harvard University, and community partners

06/13/2025

We finally got the chance to meet LEGENDARY Dave Mays! The founder who established the magazine on Harvard’s campus in 1988.

returned for his Harvard reunion & stopped by to see us

He shed light on how he got started, from campus radio show, building a mailing list to share the run of show & how that became a magazine.

One of our favorite parts about our archive is that we hold a near complete collection of & are able to assist researchers who visit to reference articles and artists featured in magazines dating back over 30 years ⭐️

Join us Monday, June 23rd at the newly opened Cambridge kiosk in Harvard Square to learn more about the source of The Source!

06/13/2025

📣 The source of THE Source! Let’s talk about it 🎤
📍Cambridge Kiosk • Harvard Square

established the magazine on Harvard’s campus in 1988 🤯

This is a collaborative event with UMass Boston, Harvard University, and community partners

06/10/2025

📣 Monday, June 23rd
📍Cambridge Kiosk (Harvard Square)

Did you know The Source evolved from a student radio show @ Harvard University?

Join us in celebrating the local roots of The Source at the newly opened Cambridge Kiosk 6/23

03/22/2025

📣🎥🎬 WOMEN IN HIPHOP FILM FESTIVAL🍿📀✨

Thurs, March 27 | 12PM–6PM |

🎟️Free with RSVP at linktr.ee/hiphoparchive

Join us in celebrating Women’s History Month with a powerful lineup of films honoring the creativity, resilience, and legacy of women in hip hop.

2 Screening Areas | 6 Films | Snacks | Vibes | Photobooth

✨Pop in for one or stay all day!✨

Screen 1: The Seminar Space
12:15PM – Nobody Knows My Name
1:30PM – The Forty-Year-Old Version
3:45PM – Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words

Screen 2: Inside the Archive
12:15PM – Roxanne Roxanne
2:30PM – This Is the Life
4:30PM – Say My Name

Hosted by the HipHop Archive & Research Institute
Located at 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 2R – right in the heart of Harvard Square.

Grab your popcorn, bring your crew, and let’s honor the womxn who’ve shaped hip hop from the mic to the movement.

01/21/2023

03/09/2021

We’ll be having a conversation on Hiphop and social movements tomorrow from 2-3 pm EST

Come hear from Killer Mike, Nsé Ufot (the CEO of the New Georgia Project), and our very own Professor Morgan!

Register here! ⬇️
Bit.ly/PowerAndProtests

02/08/2021

The new, original documentary will stream exclusively on Disney+ later this month.

11/16/2020

Check out this article, “'Pain and The Hunger Made a Savage:' The Rebirth of 21 Savage and Why It Matters in 2020," written by HARI Research Assistant, Festus Ojo.

Written by Festus Ojo

10/31/2020

Now that's what I'm talking about!

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