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A Look Back: "Our Block" - South Bronx
CBS News via Yahoo News· 11 months agoVic Miles takes us on a trip back in time to visit Lyman Place, a block in the Morrisania section of the South Bronx that was undergoing a transformation...
Chuck D To Narrate Audible Series Exploring Hip-Hop’s South Bronx Origins
SPIN via AOL· 1 year agoPublic Enemy’s Chuck D will narrate an upcoming Audible Original series detailing a little-known...
The NYPD’s most decorated detective on surviving America’s deadliest precinct: ‘It would horrify you...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRalph Friedman achieved legendary status in the NYPD during his 13 years working the tough streets...
An all-Puerto Rican doo-wop group, The Eternals, has a place in music history
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTwo members of the Puerto Rican doo-wop group The Eternals, popular in the late 1950s with Billboard...
40 years ago, a groundbreaking record from Englewood changed hip-hop
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAt first, there was no message. Rap was all bluff and bluster. Party stuff, straight up. Hip hop,...
Tracing the 50-year evolution of hip-hop, from South Bronx block parties to the Black Power movement...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 10 months agoRun-DMC was considered one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop culture.Michael...
Trump holds campaign rally in the Bronx as he seeks to make inroads with Hispanic and Black voters
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 month agoFormer President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a rally Thursday in the Bronx as his campaign...
It's been 50 years since hip-hop popularized street style — Black fashion leaders and communities...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 10 months agoEileen Costa/Courtesy of The Museum at FIT; Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for IMG Fashion, Alyssa...
Bronx priest Louis Gigante, brother of mob boss Vinny ‘The Chin’ Gigante, dead at 90
NY Daily News via AOL· 2 years agoThe Rev. Louis Gigante, a Catholic priest, politician and protector of his mob boss brother Vincent...
Straight Outta Nashville: Music City to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop with mural, exhibit
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe Notorious B.I.G. lyricized "you never thought that hip-hop would take it this far" in "Juicy,"...