The Come Up Ages 2 and up an unexpected encounter on a

an unexpected encounter on a visit to Cuba

Meet the Kings

The Talk is a gently honest and sensitive starting point for this far-too-necessary conversation

As a little boy gets ready for bed

in Akata Warrior

The Come Up Ages 2 and up an unexpected encounter on aThe essential oral history of hip hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop cultureThe music that would come to be known as hip hop was born at a party in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. Now, fifty years later, its the most popular music genre in America. Just as jazz did in the first half of the twentieth century, hip hop and its groundbreaking DJs and artistsnearly all of them people of