But it was Public Enemy who landed on TV evening news broadcasts, depicted as a symbol of a new and dangerous Black radicalism. Some of this controversy was by design: Its members were ...

Now on display in the museum’s “Musical Crossroads” exhibition, the boombox is a striking symbol of the early years of hip-hop. NMAAHC, gift of Public Enemy When Timothy Anne Burnside spent ...

a symbol that Public Enemy are at war, and that black people should be at war to regain their enslaved minds. It’s the war to regain awareness; that’s what ‘Countdown To Armageddon’ is ...