Most people would never put Shakespeare and Kendrick Lamar in the same sentence. One composed sonnets for the Elizabethan court, the other raps over trap beats for sold-out arenas. Honestly, on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HACKENSACK — Toney Jackson, a veteran fourth grade teacher at Nellie K. Parker Elementary School, an author and a hip-hop and ...

Bethsheba “Queen Sheba” Rem is throwing down the gauntlet this weekend. If you’re a hip-hop artist, and you think your rhymes have what it takes, come down to Modern Studio in Downtown North Knoxville ...

Sound Check is the Globe’s weekly guide to concerts, tunes, and trends rooted in Boston and beyond. This column covers July 5-11. It took roughly nine years for the touring “Poetry vs. Hip-Hop” ...

With Street Scriptures: Between God and Hip-Hop, Alejandro Nava introduces an intervention into the excesses and shortcomings of two of the major theological movements of the 20th century: Latin ...

Sheridan Singleton is a unique blend of bubbly with a dash of darkness and a smack of peculiar wit. She has a colorful background, and her idiosyncratic but relatable personality is what drives her to ...

A founding member of the American music and spoken-word group The Last Poets, Abiodun Oyewole is also known as a founding father of hip hop. Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, Erykah ...

What happens when hip-hop meets an ancient Southeast Asian poetry tradition in the American Midwest? Answer: an unusual collaboration between a young rapper and his grandmother. The American immigrant ...

"What better way to support artists within our community than throughout the better way!? We at Manifesto are extremely excited to work with PATTISON Onestop in celebrating National Poetry Month with ...

Given the scarcity of Black female engineering faculty, Carlotta Berry, Ph.D., is a bit of a unicorn. The April 2021 Pew Research Center article “STEM Jobs See Uneven Progress in Increasing Gender, ...