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Article: WHEN PUBLIC ENEMY RAPS, MANY HUB YOUTHS GET THE MESSAGE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 30, 1990
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A few weeks ago, a graphic artist was eating his lunch in a
Newton Corner playground as a group of fourth-graders romped nearby.
As recess ended and a teacher gathered the children together,
the artist noticed that a small black boy wearing a Pittsburgh
Pirates baseball cap was standing near him.
"You like the Pirates?" the artist asked.
The boy looked up, made a fist in a black power salute, and
said, "I'm Chuck D," then got into line and without another word
walked back to school.
Chuck D, the lead rapper for the rap group Public Enemy, often
wears a Pirates hat. For some youths, he is the role model that
baseball players have provided for past generations.
In Boston's ...