Kanye at Howard and the Spectacular Failure of Celebrity

His recent ahistorical statements should be reason enough to distance ourselves from him

Danielle Moodie
ZORA
Published in
5 min readOct 18, 2019

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A photo of Kanye performing his Sunday Service at Howard University.
Credit: Howard University

AAlmost a decade ago, Texas public schools came under fire for adopting a new social studies curriculum in which slavery was characterized as “unpaid labor” and a form of indentured servitude, as opposed to the…

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Danielle Moodie
ZORA
Writer for

is the host of #WokeAF Daily & co-host of the podcast #democracyish. She covers all the news and happenings at the intersection of politics and pop culture.