Mom's legacy is world renowned black collection

Garage sales are for treasures. Museums are for the ages. Mayme Clayton spent a lifetime scouring one so her son could build the other.

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More than seven-in-ten among the U.S. public, including large majorities of both blacks and whites, offer a negative assessment of rap music, with 71% of blacks and 74% of whites agreeing that rap's societal impact is bad.

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Of course there are other catalysts, but until we recapture the minds of black youth, convince them that it's not OK to "super man dat ho" and end any and every dispute by "cocking on your @!$%#," nothing will change. Does a Soulja Boy want an education?

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On Saturday nights in summer, hundreds of fingers pound out mesmerizing rhythms on African drums—a ritual repeated for decades in Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park. This year, the drums have a counterpoint: the complaints of "new Harlemites."

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Excerpt: "Over the past three decades black culture has grown so conflated with hip-hop culture that for most Americans under the age of 45, hip-hop culture is black culture. Except that it's not.

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I just finished playing basketball for a team in the Spanish first division. Our games were a big deal—the first division in Spain is easily the second-best basketball league in the world.

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The High Cost of Selling the American Dream

Hip hop is dead.

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I always thought urban meant the city, where all the hustle and bustle takes place. Apparently that meaning has been redefined as hip-hop culture...John N. Pasmore, the author of this Fast Company blog has a short list of 5 people (or entities) who made it so.

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Following Michael Richards' appearance on Rev. Jesse Jackson's "Keep Hope Alive" radio show, comedian Paul Mooney and others are calling for the ban of the "N word."

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An insult too far...

Should US rappers and others use the 'N' word? That has been a hotly debated topic during Black History Month. For me, hearing it spoken by anyone, Black or white, still sends shivers down my spine many decades after the racial slur was first spat at me as a child.

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