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jessica Care moore rocks The Fillmore: 20th Annual ‘Black Women Rock’ showcases power, creativity, and legacy of Black women in rock

Image courtesy of jessica Care Moore by Amber Ogden, Staff Writer Poet laureate, author, mother, activist and rock star—jessica Care moore wears many crowns, but perhaps...

Lollapalooza 2024 Review: Spotlighting the Black stars and emerging talents

Megan Thee Stallion embraces Angel Reese during the rapper’s Lollapalooza performance (Photo Credit Instagram). by Marshelle Sanders, For The Chicago Defender Since its inception in 1991,...

Missy Elliott tours as a headliner − and it’s about time

Missy Elliott’s music tells stories of Black cyborgs, space-time travel and postapocalyptic worlds. Prince Williams/WireImage via Getty Images by Elliott H. Powell, University of Minnesota Missy...

Coming In Hot: These Afrobeats stars are set to light up the summer

Afrobeats stars Rema, Amaarae, Asake and Ayra Starr are coming to Afro Nation Detroit (Credit: X, Facebook, Capital FM Kenya).  If Black life had a...

Prodigy’s personal mythology: Remembering the ‘fallen angel’ of Mobb Deep

Albert Johnson, aka Prodigy, (left) and Kejuan Muchita, aka Havock, of the hip hop duo Mobb Deep in New York in 2006. Johnson died...

Why do American rappers see Drake as not Black enough?

Canadian rapper Drake at the Billboard Music Awards in May 2019. Drake’s recent beef with American rapper Kendrick Lamar highlights how Canadian rap is...

Rap ‘beef’ as public spectacle is a dangerous game that artists rarely win

Canadian police and television reporters gather outside the rapper Drake’s Toronto mansion after a shooting there in May 2024. (Andrew Francis Wallace/Toronto Star via...

OutKast released their debut album 30 years ago: How ‘Southernplayalistic’ changed Atlanta history

Atlanta’s music scene can be divided into two eras: B.O. (Before OutKast) and A.O. (After OutKast). On April 26, 1994, everything changed.  Before OutKast hit...

How educator Gloria Jean Merriex used dance, drills and devotion to turn around a failing elementary school in a year

by Boaz Dvir, Penn State When Duval Elementary – a school that served mostly Black and poor students in East Gainesville, Florida – failed the...

Ben Shapiro’s hip-hop hypocrisy and White male grievance lands him on top of pop music charts for a brief moment

by A.D. Carson, University of Virginia Over the past decade, conservative commentator and podcaster Ben Shapiro has made a living telling his followers that rap...

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