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

Gloria Carter & Angie Martinez in conversation.

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?

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. 

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

Panelists make their case for why their region (West Coast, East Coast, Midwest & The South) have made the biggest impact on hip-hop.

Philosopher Kathryn Sophia Bell sits down with Rapsody to discuss the past, present, and future of women's representation within the genre as artists and support systems.

Traditional African ways are the root of hip-hop but American and Western influences are dominating the culture. Is that a good thing?

Can women's truth and power co-exist in hip-hop culture? Led by April R. Silver