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) — Rasheeda Frost’s decades-long relationship with hip-hop started in 1981. She…
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) — Before it was a global movement, it was simply an expression of life and struggle: a…
Continue ReadingHip-hop turns 50, reinventing itself and swaths of the world along the way
By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In the five decades since hip-hop emerged out of New York City, it has spread around the country…
Continue Reading41 dead in migrant shipwreck according to 4 survivors who set off from Tunisia
By NICOLE WINFIELD, RENATA BRITO and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Forty-one people are believed dead after a migrant boat…
Continue ReadingProfit at Japan’s Honda doubles on healthy global auto and motorcycle sales
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Honda says its April-June profit more than doubled on healthy sales of its motorcycles and cars,…
Continue ReadingIndia’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi condemns the Modi government over violence in Manipur
By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has strongly condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…
Continue ReadingNearly 100 Croatian soccer fans face murder, gang-related charges in Greece after deadly violence
By DEREK GATOPOULOS and LEFTERIS PITARAKIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Nearly 100 Croatian soccer fans have appeared in an Athens court…
Continue ReadingSri Lankan president vows to strengthen provincial governments to share power with Tamil minority
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president says he will strengthen provincial governments to meet…
Continue ReadingDam in Norway partially bursts after days of heavy rain, flooding and evacuations
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A dam in southern Norway partially burst after days of heavy rain that triggered…
Continue ReadingRussian attack in Ukraine kills 3 in Zaporizhzhia. A blast at a Moscow-area factory adds to jitters
By DASHA LITVINOVA and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian rocket attack on Wednesday killed three people and wounded…
Continue ReadingFire at French vacation home for adults with disabilities leaves 11 dead
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Eleven people have died after a fire ripped through a vacation home for adults with disabilities in…
Continue ReadingNagasaki marks 78th anniversary of atomic bombing with mayor urging world to abolish nuclear weapons
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Nagasaki marked the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city Wednesday with the…
Continue ReadingBahrain prison inmates on hunger strike in latest sign of simmering unrest in island kingdom
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain prison inmates are taking part in a hunger strike over conditions…
Continue ReadingSony’s profits drop as it warns of the impact from US movie strikes
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony’s profits between April and June slipped 17%, as worries grew about revenue damage from a…
Continue ReadingNiger’s ousted president is said to be running low on food under house arrest, 2 weeks after coup
By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s deposed president is running out of food and under increasingly dire conditions…
Continue ReadingWorld Bank says no new funding to Uganda over anti-gay law
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The World Bank says it will not consider new loans to Uganda after the East African…
Continue ReadingRomanian care homes scandal spotlights abuse described as ‘inhumane and degrading’
By STEPHEN McGRATH and VADIM GHIRDA Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A string of disturbing revelations of “inhumane and degrading”…
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