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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ohio is full of fascinating people. People whose passions infuse their careers or their hobbies, and sometimes both in some cases. This hour, we’ll meet a hip-hop artist who’s bringing the music form ...

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 ...

When the printed copies of his new memoir finally arrived, A.D. Carson freed a book from its packaging, held it in his hand and carefully turned the pages that acknowledged almost two dozen nieces and ...

In 2023 Ahmir Thompson, known as Questlove, curated the “Hip-Hop at 50” tribute for the Grammy Awards. The harrowing experience, in which Mr. Thompson had to distill a half century of music—and ...

Students, scholars and members of the Drexel community gathered at the law school on Sept. 8 for a discussion of Professor Donald F. Tibbs' new book examining the varied but undeniable connections ...