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The 2008 Third Bi-Annual National Hip Hop Political Convention (NHHPC) will be held August 1-3, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The NHHPC is a gathering of social justice activists, organizers, students, journalist, scholars, artists and concerned citizens who come together to define the political agenda of the Hip Hop community. On July 28-31, 2008, a [...]

NEW YORK, June 23, 2008 – With just days until its star-studded “VH1 Rock Honors” concert event saluting The Who, VH1 has announced the upcoming date for its next A-List tentpole event the “VH1 Hip Hop Honors.”

Atlanta, GA – SnitchCraft, an urban novel by Edrea Davis, recently landed on the required reading list in a curriculum guide examining snitching at the Yale National Initiative of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. The Introduction to Criminal Justice course, Police Investigative Challenges: To Snitch or Not to Snitch, That is the Unanswered Question, seeks [...]

Old School Hip-Hop, The Golden Age

Stevie Wonder is in the mood to reminisce. It’s hard not to, he says, whenever Detroit is on the agenda — as it is with a concert scheduled Tuesday at DTE Energy Music Theatre. In a sense, Detroit is always on Wonder’s agenda. The Motor City, where Wonder’s storied career took flight more than four [...]

Brooklyn, NY (June 19, 2008) Tanya Morgan joins the ranks of legendary hip-hop collective The Hieroglyphics this summer as part of their Freshly Dipped Tour. Tanya Morgan members Donwill, Ilyas, and Von Pea, who put out the critically acclaimed Moonlighting in 2006 and who are promoting their EP The Bridge, are preparing to hit the [...]

Controversial rapper N.Y.OIL is not known for ducking controversy as anyone who has seen his videos or witnessed his tirades against the exploitation of black culture can attest. Never one to hold his tongue, N.Y.Oil now takes issue with B.E.T. slow walking the airing of his “Lynched” video…the very version that THEY produced!!!!

Bern Nadette Stanis said it loud: She’s Black and most definitely proud. The second Thelma Evans graced the small screen with her perfectly sculpted afro puffs and funky 70s fashions as the only daughter of the Good Times family, the former dancer and Brooklyn, NY native was cemented an icon and sexy symbol. As part [...]