In college, I was astounded by how many white people considered themselves serious fans of Public Enemy. Somehow, one of the most pro-black hip-hop groups in history became the sound track for ...

Watch Gen Z twins Tim and Fred Williams react to some of the most iconic white artists, from Aerosmith to Johnny Cash. If you’ve been on Tiktok or Youtube lately, you probably have seen twins, Tim and ...

Martin Luther King, Jr., in his book “Stride Toward Freedom,” wrote, “On a cool Saturday afternoon in January 1954, I set out to drive from Atlanta, Georgia, to Montgomery, Alabama. . . . The ...

In the spring of 2004, I quit hip-hop. It wasn’t the first time. Our relationship was stormy from the start. Hip-hop was my first literature, and it was Rakim, not Fitzgerald, who first made me ...