Jesse Jackson criticized Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday over his reaction to the arrest of six black juveniles in Jena, Louisiana, on murder charges, accusing the Illinois ...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at age 84. He died Monday of complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular ...

Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.

David Bowie was always a poetic songwriter, but even he had to bow down to the revolutionary brilliance of a poet like Linton Kwesi Johnson during the 1970s.

A rewatch of Dexter's final four seasons uncovers overlooked depth, character growth, and emotional complexity that fans may have missed.

On this date in 1999, Brooklyn lyricist, actor, and social activist Yasiin Bey—who the Hip Hop world first knew as Mos Def—released his debut solo album Black On Both Sides on the Rawkus/Columbia ...

Laila is carving her own lane in music, but not without a word of caution from her father Mos Def. In a recently uploaded interview with Nessa on Hot 97, the 19-year-old singer-songwriter was asked ...

Sean "Diddy" Combs is set to be sentenced in his criminal sex-crimes case, while a mountain of civil lawsuits sits on the horizon. At the conclusion of Combs' seven-weeklong federal trial in July, ...

On this day in hip hop history, 27 years ago, Mos Def and Talib Kweli joined forces to release their iconic debut album Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star on Rawkus Records — a landmark project that ...

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Gorillaz have gathered another highly eclectic cast of collaborators for their ninth album, The Mountain, which will be released March 20 on the Damon Albarn-led band’s new KONG label. Lead track “The ...