CFP: Hip Hop at 50
The music journalist Sidney Shaw, the leading female character in the 2002 movie Brown Sugar, opened each of her interviews
Read moreThe music journalist Sidney Shaw, the leading female character in the 2002 movie Brown Sugar, opened each of her interviews
Read moreEarly this year, rapper Rod Wave’s album, Soul Fly, entered the music scene with a sharp analysis of contemporary Black manhood.
Read moreThe Black Lives Matter protests have sparked many responses from Black musicians—and not just in the United States. On the
Read morePictured in profile on the cover The Narrative (2016), hip hop artist Sho Baraka calls upon listeners to draw connections between
Read moreIt was the summer of 1986 in Chicago, and my eleven-year-old self was engaged in an intense debate with my
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