Morgan began her journalism career at The Village Voice,[6] where one of her early articles, The Pro-Rape Culture, was about the Central Park jogger case.
In 1999, Morgan coined the phrases "Black girl magic" and "hip hop feminist"[6] through her groundbreaking book When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost.
[6] Morgan appeared in the 2020 documentary On the Record about rape accusations against hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons.
[13] Morgan's most famous work is found in her 1999 book When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost, in which she examines the complexities of feminism for women who have grown up with hip hop.
She explores the dynamic of ascribing to feminism while simultaneously enjoying some aspects of patriarchal culture, focusing on how one balances and reconciles these seemingly conflicting ideas.
[14] She asks herself questions like "Can you be a good feminist and admit out loud that there are things that you kinda dig about patriarchy?"
and "Suppose you don't want to pay for your own dinner, hold the door open, fix things, move furniture, or get intimate with whatever's under the hood of a car"?
She additionally cites music artists such as R. Kelly, Jodeci, Lil' Kim, and Queen Latifah as vehicles through which she makes her point about some of the dualities that come with feminism.