Maurice Johnson is a college professor in Tallahassee whose unique teaching style and commitment to education grabbed the attention of faculty and students at Florida A&M University and, more recently ...

As a rap artist who is also a professor of hip-hop, I always make it a point to have my songs reviewed by other artists I admire. So when I released “i used to love to dream” – my latest album – in ...

Beyoncé’s 2017 Grammy Awards performance of “Take My Hand, Precious Lord,” may not be the typical start to a class at Georgetown University. But for professor Michael Eric Dyson, pop-cultural emblems ...

A.D. Carson is the first-ever professor of hip-hop at UVa or any school. His dream is "to make the path to studying through ...

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Evelyn Nien-Ming Chi’en is always listening. Holding her breath, trying to catch that curious resonance that makes a moment complete. “I was up in the Adirondacks recently, and there was this lake ...

Before Jason Rawls collaborated with some of the most well-known names in hip-hop — Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), Talib Kweli, Pro Era and the Beastie Boys, just to name a few — he was like ...

[Amar Bains/The Daily Pennsylvanian] Rutgers law professor Imani Perry speaks about the artistic merit of hip hop and how it relates to modern racism. Underneath its often vulgar exterior, hip hop ...

Sekou Cooke is on the verge of adopting a new motto: remix everything. It can be applied to something as simple as what the architect and UNC Charlotte professor calls his radical approach to reusing ...

As a rap artist who is also a professor of hip-hop, I always make it a point to have my songs reviewed by other artists I admire. So when I released “i used to love to dream” – my latest album – in ...