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How Muslims Defined American ‘Cool’
A conversation with the Purdue University professor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, whose new book documents the connection between Islam and hip-hop culture in the United States
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Sharon Jones, Soul Singer With Dap-Kings, Dead at 60
Singer dies following “heroic battle against pancreatic cancer”.
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Film Review: Miss Sharon Jones!
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings is a Grammy-nominated R&B band from Brooklyn. Their groove is funky like James Brown’s. Jones’ gyrations are as wild and ferocious as Tina Tuner’s.
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‘The Get Down’ Tells the Story Behind the Birth of Hip-Hop
Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix series The Get Down is a fantastical bildungsroman set against the backdrop of the Bronx in the late 1970s.
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This Lawyer-Slash-Emcee Rapped About the Gentrification of Her Hometown…and Went Viral
Meet Washington D.C.’s Tarica June
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