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The hip-hop genre is celebrated across the world and has permeated many facets of American society, creating wealth in the process.

After an LSU professor realized the Student Health Center was built atop a cemetery for enslaved plantation workers, he found himself a year later standing on the SHC’s grounds reading

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Earl “DMX” Simmons kept it real whether he was testifying about his angels or his demons. While it’s common for grief, depression, anxiety, and faith to come up in popular music today, Simmons rose to fame at a time when hip-hop songs about flashy cars, jewelry, and expensive clothes ruled the charts. The rapper best known by his stage name DMX shot videos in his childhood neighborhood wearing workman’s jumpsuits and few gold chains. Simmons—who died last week at age 50—is the first and only rapper to have five albums debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and he did so while ...

Scientific American A new study of the city’s policing also shows differences between male and female cops Print Demonstrators confront police during a protest over the death of Laquan McDonald on November 25, 2015, in Chicago. Credit: Scott Olson Advertisement White police officers in Chicago are far more likely than their Black counterparts to stop, arrest or use force against Black civilians, and the disparity is more pronounced in the city’s highly segregated majority-Black neighborhoods, according to a study published Thursday in Science. The study’s authors say the findings sugg...