Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of his most pivotal, most iconic speeches in 1963 before ...

In 1991, dream hampton was one of the first journalists to write about what happened to Dee Barnes. The youngest Black woman to host a national show dedicated solely to hip-hop, Barnes’s burgeoning ...

Not so long ago, there was a time in which Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, producer, writer, and noted not-music journalist, dream hampton, loved hip-hop. It was a moment before artists could simply ...

I wanted to be like Harry Allen. He was the “Media Assassin” Public Enemy shouted in the “Don’t Believe The Hype” video in 1988. He even had a speaking part at the end of the song. To me, Allen saying ...

For filmmaker dream hampton, the story of women in hip-hop is not one of easily packaged girl power over tight beats. It’s pioneer Roxanne Shanté primping with her girls in a ladies’ room in Manhattan ...

Hip-hop, long revered as a voice for the marginalized, is now airing its dirty laundry, revealing a toxic underbelly where power and misogyny have fueled a culture of abuse. For too long, the price of ...

In the age of endless movie biopics, it should be a crime how few of them are based on hip-hop's greatest artists. Yes, we have "Straight Outta Compton" about West Coast rap group N.W.A. and ...