The truth can be painful. Perhaps that's why it's so elusive in certain chapters in our history books. We don't always talk about the uglier parts of our past, but in this day of growing awareness ...

KESHENA - Award-winning Indigenous hip-hop star Supaman visited the Menominee Nation last week and dazzled with his lightning-fast traditional dances and inspired with his positive messages.

Amer Ahmed, a longtime board member at the Hip Hop Congress, found the concept of American Indian hip-hop strikingly unfamiliar. Last November, Ahmed, director of intercultural affairs at Concordia ...

This story originally appeared on Underscore.news and is co-published by Underscore.news and ICT, a news partnership that covers Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. Funding is provided in ...

Hip-hop history is coming home to Wilmington. This spring, hip-hop pioneer and Wilmington native Sharon Jackson, known as MC Sha-Rock — she's considered to be the first female rapper — will be honored ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In its six decades of presenting the Grammys, the Recording Academy has never ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A local Native American hip-hop artist in Missoula is gaining national recognition. Shadow Devereaux, also known as Foreshadow, won a 2022 Native American Music Award for best ...

Appleton-based Indigenous hip-hop artist Jezelle-Childs Evans, who goes by the stage name J25, was recently inducted as member into the Recording Academy, the organization that presents the annual ...

The grandfather of hip-hop was white, bald, and often wore a bow tie. According to professional architect and Highland Park native Michael Ford, the earliest traces of hip-hop came long before the ...

Since its birth in the ‘70s, hip-hop has become a global phenomenon and cross-cultural unifier. Countless artists like the members of Native Deen, a D.C.-area trio, have harnessed the power of the ...