Before Jason Rawls collaborated with some of the most well-known names in hip-hop — Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), Talib Kweli, Pro Era and the Beastie Boys, just to name a few — he was like ...

Ashley Tate has danced and choreographed for most of her life. And the further she has gone with the art form, the more she has turned her focus toward amplifying voices of the past and present. Tate, ...

Maurice Johnson is a college professor in Tallahassee whose unique teaching style and commitment to education grabbed the attention of faculty and students at Florida A&M University and, more recently ...

Beyoncé’s 2017 Grammy Awards performance of “Take My Hand, Precious Lord,” may not be the typical start to a class at Georgetown University. But for professor Michael Eric Dyson, pop-cultural emblems ...

A.D. Carson is inspiring a new generation of musicians and artists of all ages through his music and words and redefining the notion that you need to be number one on the charts to be considered a ...

Todd Boyd started writing his new book, “Rapper’s Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made the World,” about three years ago, though in many ways, it’s been underway for decades. “I’ve been telling that in many ways, ...

Walk into the Cincinnati Art Museum in the next few months and you’ll be greeted by two gigantic Nike Air Force 1 basketball shoes. The amazing sculptures weigh several hundred pounds each and are ...

Heather Augustyn will never tell you that Hip Hop isn’t an American-born movement, but if you can’t pick up the Jamaican and Ska influences in it, you’re not listening close enough. For Augustyn, one ...

Jessica Williams was shot and killed by San Francisco police on May 19, 2015, after being pulled over for driving a stolen car. When she heard the news, Andrea Clay joined a protest at the site of the ...