Forbes has just published the list of top ten music money-makers for 2007. I excitedly surveyed the list to see how many African-American rappers made the list. After all, throughout the 20th century, Black popular music – and most recently, rap music – affected and gave birth to various manifestations of pop culture […]

This morning I pulled out my dusty Commodores CD and downloaded it to my ipod. I had not touched that CD for years and felt like listening to some old-school jams as I hopped on the treadmill. As I listened to “Nightshift” this morning, my mind reached back to my early college […]