Naima Green-Riley

Feb 23, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Naima Green-Riley |Andrew Leber

Hip-hop music can offer a window into the concerns of Black communities. “Our Soldiers,” a 2008 song by the American rapper KRS-One, opens with a siren. After those first few seconds, one might assume the track—like many other hip-hop songs—will be about policing in the United States. But as the lyrics unfold, it becomes clear that KRS-One will take on a different issue: the Iraq war.

Feb 23, 2024 | brnw.ch | Naima Green-Riley |Andrew Leber |Carl Minzner |James Lindsay

Hip-hop music can offer a window into the concerns of Black communities. “Our Soldiers,” a 2008 song by the American rapper KRS-One, opens with a siren. After those first few seconds, one might assume the track—like many other hip-hop songs—will be about policing in the United States. But as the lyrics unfold, it becomes clear that KRS-One will take on a different issue: the Iraq war.

Jul 19, 2023 | tandfonline.com | Naima Green-Riley |Andrew Leber

Data and MethodologyOur article uses the best available polling and survey data to adjudicate between the four potential rationales for the race gap in war support proposed above for one of the most major wars in recent history: the US war in Iraq. Using Iraq War data for this study allows us to gauge the extent to which the race gap in support for war has persisted into recent years.