Hip-hop and justice: Culture carries the spirit of protest, 50 years and counting
By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop has been an integral part of social and racial justice movements. It’s also been…
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Women battle misogyny to send hip-hop spinning in a new direction
By SHAR0N JOHNSON and NARDOS HAILE Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Female rappers have been a part of hip-hop since its debut. Women have fought to…
Continue ReadingThe NBA has been playing to a hip-hop beat for nearly 50 years
By KYLE HIGHTOWER AND ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writers Just as a movie soundtrack helps viewers follow the action of the narrative through each plot…
Continue ReadingHow hip-hop went from being shunned by big business to multimillion-dollar collabs
By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The signs of hip-hop’s influence are now everywhere from Pharrell Williams becoming Louis…
Continue ReadingHip-hop was born in the Bronx amid poverty, despair. 50 years later, there’s pride, still hard times
By NOREEN NASIR Associated Press BRONX, NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop was born in the Bronx, rising from the ashes of a borough ablaze with poverty,…
Continue ReadingHip-hop turns 50, reinventing itself and swaths of the world along the way
By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop was born in the break — that moment when a song’s vocals dropped, instruments quieted…
Continue ReadingEdmunds compares: 2023 Mazda CX-50 vs. Honda CR-V
By CHASE BIERENKOVEN Edmunds The Honda CR-V has consistently been one of the most popular small crossover SUVs on sale in America. It’s also highly…
Continue Reading‘Monumental’ data breach exposes names of entire Northern Ireland police force
By Christian Edwards and Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — A “monumental” data breach has exposed the names and rank of all 10,000 serving…
Continue Reading41 dead in new Mediterranean migrant shipwreck tragedy
By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Forty-one people reportedly died in a migrant shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa,…
Continue Reading5 things to know for August 9: Storms, Ohio, Economy, Biden, Ukraine
CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — A lottery ticket sold in Florida won Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing for the $1.58 billion jackpot. This…
Continue Reading5 things to know for August 9: Storms, Ohio, Economy, Biden, Ukraine
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — A lottery ticket sold in Florida won Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing for the $1.58 billion jackpot. This will…
Continue ReadingEU leader promises aid and support to flood-ravaged Slovenia during visit
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has visited Slovenia and promised EU help to the small member state…
Continue Reading‘Like something out of a horror movie’: At least 6 dead and communities decimated in Maui wildfires
By Holly Yan, Christina Maxouris, Amanda Jackson and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — At least six people have died in the wildfires that are ravaging…
Continue ReadingGunmen attack police guarding polio team in northwest Pakistan and kill 1 officer
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say gunmen have attacked police officers providing security for polio vaccination workers during a door-to-door…
Continue ReadingExplosion at plant near Moscow injures at least 60
By Uliana Pavlova and Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — At least 60 people were injured and eight remain unaccounted for following an explosion at an…
Continue ReadingThe world’s biggest law firm is splitting off its business in China
By Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Dentons, the world’s biggest law firm by number of employees, is distancing itself from its business…
Continue ReadingVacharaesorn, uno de los distanciados hijos del rey de Tailandia, regresó sorpresivamente al país después de 27 años
Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El segundo hijo mayor del rey Maha de Tailandia, que ha vivido distanciado de la familia real durante años,…
Continue ReadingNew variant EG.5 is on the rise as Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations go up
By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — There’s a new coronavirus variant topping the leaderboard in the United States: EG.5. Nationally, EG.5 is…
Continue ReadingHip-hop and justice: Culture carries the spirit of protest, 50 years and counting
By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop has been an integral part of social and racial justice movements. It’s also been…
Continue ReadingA 3-month-old died after he was left unattended in a vehicle in Houston
By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Houston police are investigating the death of a 3-month-old after he was left inside a vehicle on a sweltering…
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