The Roots often are classified as “conscious rap” or “alternative hip-hop” but mostly that’s because they play instruments rather than relying on a DJ to provide backup. Thompson, who now goes by ...

Levitt Pavilion Dayton presents its first World Indigenous Day celebration concert Saturday, Aug. 10 headlined by two-time Juno Award winners Digging Roots. The concert, created in partnership with ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories of this process? Culture is central to defining humanity. Throughout ...