Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
1990 ~ Def Jam Records
The cover for Public Enemy’s third album was just as meaningful as the album itself. Chuck D focused the album around influential (and controversial) Black psychiatrist Dr. Frances Cress Welsing’s Theory of Color Confrontation. The black sphere emblazoned with PE’s logo colliding into Earth is a perfect representation of Public Enemy directly confronting race politics and racism in the United States. For an album that contains “911 Is A Joke” and “Fight The Power”, I can’t think of a better visual primer for the listener.