September 13, 2014 at 5:12 pm Guest: Macklemore, Iggy Azalea and the emergence of white hip-hop RAP artists who are not African American, like Macklemore and Iggy Azalea, have drawn recent criticism for appropriating a black art form. Azalea was called... Opinion
February 19, 2008 at 12:00 am Racial slurs in the public square In the late 1980s I was a college undergraduate in the San Francisco Bay Area. I was sitting in the cafeteria next to two white... Opinion
April 12, 2007 at 12:00 am Hip-hop: bringing knowledge from the streets to academia There have been a number of writings, recordings and television specials recently celebrating and discussing the "30th anniversary" of hip-hop... Opinion
September 27, 2006 at 12:00 am Tupac plus 10: hip-hop’s diminished potential It has been a decade since the passing of Tupac Shakur, the hip-hop equivalent of Bob Marley and Elvis Presley, the iconic figures of reggae... Opinion