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Hear music and field recordings from bassist, composer, and fashion icon Jamaaladeen Tacuma's residency in North Carolina, where he explores his familial and musical roots.

In 1953, a 27-year-old Hugh Hefner pasted up the first issue of Playboy magazine on the kitchen table of his Chicago apartment. Fifty years later, Hefner reflects on the fate of the sexual revolution his magazine helped to spark -- and the need to embrace sexuality in a healthy way.

Demonstrators with the Black Lives Matter movement and other groups marched 6 miles to rally outside the Democratic National Convention. They called for more police accountability and other issues.

The former New Jersey poet laureate, born LeRoi Jones, has died at 79. Much of his work reflected a commitment to Black Nationalist ideals. He co-founded the Black Arts movement and his poems were as controversial as they were influential.

Over a career stretching back to the 1950s, Malcolm John Rebennack came to be a living symbol of the city of New Orleans and its bottomless musical character.

Four decades after the New York City Rap Tour made history in Europe, Hip-Hop's influence is everywhere - in art, fashion and even the 2024 Olympics.

A shower head vendor in Texas asked customers if they'd be willing to pay more for a product that was made in the USA. The answers poured cold water on claims of patriotic purchases.

A New York City councilman has been stripped of his power to direct money for his district and a state senator has been removed from his leadership role…

Just two days after State Senator Malcolm Smith of New York City was charged with bribery, another state lawmaker is facing the same charge in an…

A federal prosecutor says a Democratic state lawmaker wanted to pay GOP bosses to let him run for mayor of New York City as a Republican, which is easier…