Why Are the NYPD ‘Hip-Hop Police’ Spying on Rappers? In the midst of calls to defund the police, the NYPD still has a unit dedicated to keeping tabs on rappers. Here’s a closer look at the "hip-hop ...

Travis Scott, Young Thug, Killer Mike, and a number of other artists and scholars have petitioned the Supreme Court to halt the execution of James Garfield Broadnax, a 19-year-old Black man whose rap ...

Some of rap music’s biggest names have come out in support of a Black man, whose rap lyrics were cited during his sentencing in Texas. He is on death row. In 2009, a nearly all-white jury convicted ...