In a new essay for Rolling Stone, former President Barack Obama reflects on the role of spirituals, gospel, protest songs, ...

Released in 2018, Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” quickly became a cultural phenomenon, sparking intense conversations about race, gun violence, and systemic inequality in the United States. The ...

Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America examines six songs based on the impact the song had on the time of its creation and beyond; we pick the hip-hop song that had the biggest impact both musically ...

Chuck D famously rapped “our freedom of speech is freedom or death” on Public Enemy’s 1989 single “Fight the Power,” one of hip-hop’s most powerful anthems. Thirty-five years later, the Rock & Roll ...

In this powerful closing chapter of our Hip Hop Studies series, Dr. Reiland Rabaka invites us to step beyond the music and into the deeper meaning of hip hop as a worldwide movement for change. While ...

In celebration of the opening, members can enjoy a preview of the exhibit during a private reception on Friday, March 28, at the center. Additionally, legendary hip-hop trio Digable Planets will ...

The Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit takes visitors on an educational journey through several key themes: origin, innovation, sounds of hip-hop, fashion, regionalism, entrepreneurialism, media, ...

The story of hip-hop’s beginnings has been highly contested, but it begins in the Bronx on Aug. 11, 1973. DJ Kool Herc’s sister, Cindy, is hosting a back-to-school party in their apartment complex, ...

Cheers to three world-shaking art forms that were born out of rebellion and flourished in the U.S. of A.

Egyptian Lover's Roland TR-808 drum machine is customized with hieroglyphics and themed patterns Credit: Jay Godwin / LBJ Presidential Library Hip-hop is officially middle-aged, but its mortality is ...