Crumpton is a music, pop culture, and politics writer from Dallas. Cassie Ventura is not the first survivor of hip-hop’s abuse. Unfortunately, she will not be the last. In the months since Ventura ...

Hip-hop‘s journey from underground movement to global cultural force spans five decades of evolution, during which lyrical content has both reflected and influenced societal changes. Industry experts ...

Fifty years after critics dismissed hip-hop as a passing fad, Grammy winner LL COOL J is taking viewers back to the genre's authentic New York roots with his new docuseries "Hip Hop Was Born Here," ...

Hip hop culture is arguably the most impactful artistic export the U.S. has to offer. It left its mark on everything: no haute couture house or Eastern European indie band was left untouched. What’s ...

Throughout American history, Black innovators such as Benjamin Banneker, Lewis Latimer, Madam C.J. Walker and Dr. Charles Drew helped shape scientific and industrial progress, even as the nation built ...

When Jabari “Dr. Naledge” Evans was a kid, hip-hop felt like a privilege. If he got straight A’s, his mother would let him go to the legendary music venue in the city’s South Side, Chicago’s ...