Posts Tagged ‘Hip-Hop’

Are Rappers Still Being Stereotyped?

A focus of this week's cover story, recording studio owner Jeremy Beaver has various theories about why the cops raided his two-story brick business. The pretext that brought D.C.  police flooding in seems an odd one: Listen Vision was selling mixtapes. But one theory Beaver won't entertain is that police busted [...]

Michael Steele Visits Howard, Gets Heckled, Heckles Back

Michael Steele wasn't exactly feeling the love last night at Howard. A group of young black Republicans at the historically-black university hosted the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee on his so-called "Freedom Tour," a series of town hall meetings on health care and other topics of the day. Yesterday, those topics included [...]