Phil Harrell

Some stories just seem to stay with us. That's certainly the case for Alice Walker's The Color Purpl...

Billy Porter has won a Grammy, an Emmy and a few Tonys since his breakout role on Broadway with 2013...

Paul Matthews is a tenured professor at a small college, but he's not an especially memorable person...

In the late 2000's, hip-hop was king. But there was a sameness to what was at the top, and there wer...

When hip-hop started 50 years ago, it was just a curiosity for the record labels. But by the mid-199...

2 Live Crew didn't just test the boundary of good taste; they **** all over it. In 1989, their album...

When hip-hop got its start 50 years ago, it was a DJ cutting between two record albums and an MC rhy...

What were the most important albums in hip-hop history? Rap was different before that album — and af...

As the founding drummer of Slayer, Dave Lombardo was known for speed, precision and brute force. His...

Singer/songwriter Matt Butler says he's performed for incarcerated people in more than 50 prisons an...