Howard University Associate Professor Natalie Hopkinson, Ph.D., teaches a weekly seminar, “Gender and Media” as part of the curriculum for the Communication, Culture and Media Studies doctoral program. The graduate students were tasked to analyze two of Alicia Keys’ music videos, "Brand New Me,"(2012) and "So Done," (2020) through the lens of gender theory from the work of the philosopher Judith Butler. The students were told that a person from the videos’ creative teams would join the discussion.
Then, the artist herself appeared on the live webinar, much to the shock and delight of the graduate students...
