Features

All Categories

Public Enemy's Chuck D

Theo Wargo, Getty Images

College Attended: Adelphia University

Studied: Graphic Design

Chuck D went to Long Island, N.Y.'s Adelphia University to study graphic design, although he'd been offered an architecture scholarship. While at Adelphia, the Public Enemy frontman was motivated to speak on the growing issues of the inner city. He founded PE and even designed their famed target-inspired logo. In 1989, the success of their debut LP, Fear of a Black Planet, catapulted the rap group to the forefront of hip-hop before it could be divided into "conscious" versus "everything else." Nowadays, Chuck is designing more than logos, as an activist and board member of the TransAfrica Forum. He hopes to inspire change in societal standards involving black people everywhere.