A performance by the award-winning National Double Dutch League.

Facade projections of Jamel Shabazz: Back in the Days and Danny Clinch: Hip Hop Icons Rain location: Business & Career Center Event Room

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Three key players in Hip-Hop culture share what the genre means to them.

Brandon "JINX" Jenkins delivers a manifesto, witten especially for Night in the Library: The Philosophy of Hip-Hop.

How to cover the evolving artform.

The ACLU's Emerson Sykes unpacks the use of hip-hop lyrics as criminal evidence.

Visual artist, designer, and founding creative director of Def Jam Recordings discusses creating the visual language of Hip-Hop. 

Mickey Factz compares contradictions and paradox in Hip-Hop lyrics.

Directed by Bobbito Garcia, 98 min. Saboteur Films, 2015.

Hip-hop has now transcended race, class, and nationalities. Has the universal expansion of this art form invented by Black and Brown youth now abandoned its architects?

From Not Impossible Labs, experience wearable technology that translates sound onto the skin through vibration. Inspired by the deaf community.  

Hip Hop is one of the most intensely debated forms of Black music. It has been celebrated as a sign of black cultural ingenuity, resistance and creativity and, at the same time, condemned for its complicity with exploitation, racism, sexism and capitalist consumption. What, if any, are the moral meanings of Hip Hop? And, why do such meanings matter for Black culture and Black people?  These kinds of questions have been going on since Hip Hop began 50 years ago. 

For eons, hip-hop purists have decried the commercialization of hip-hop. But has it really been that bad? Is it possible for art and business to co-exist without stripping the soul away from the culture?

The globalization of hip-hop.

With hip-hop turning 50 this year, is it rightfully still a youth-oriented culture? 

Three archivists discuss how Hip-Hop is entered into the official cultural record of institutions.

In hip-hop and pop culture today, there's a mainstream embrace of sex, sensuality, and body autonomy. Does this focus limit or liberate the true essence of hip-hop?

DeForrest Brown, Jr. on race, technology, and Artificial Intelligence in hip-hop.

This panel will explore the expansion of the hip-hop community through its evolution from expression of circumstance to popular music genre. Hear from a panel of non-Black artists and participants in the culture as they explain how they found their place in hip-hop.

One rapper, one blunt, one mic: a live experiment.

Can the positive energy of hip-hop save it from the destructive influence of death and drugs?

Can women's truth and power co-exist in hip-hop culture?