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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...
'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five turns 40: How the record changed hip-hop
USA TODAY 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...
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...
Trump holds campaign rally in the Bronx as he seeks to make inroads with Hispanic and Black voters
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoFormer President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a rally Thursday in the Bronx as his campaign...
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,"...