Hip-Hop Voting Bloc? Hip-Hop Voting Bloc?
If everything goes according to plan, a voting bloc as influential as the religious right, but progressive, could be established.
Aug 22, 2005 / Feature / Adam Howard
Grim Fairy Tales Grim Fairy Tales
It seemed too bizarre to be anything but apocryphal, but, hey, I heard it on NPR: William Poole, a high school junior from Kentucky, was taken into custody and charged with threa...
Mar 10, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Everyday Struggle Everyday Struggle
A talk with hip-hop historian Jeff Chang.
Mar 1, 2005 / Feature / Mark Hatch-Miller
Dazed and Confused Dazed and Confused
Perhaps no cultural phenomenon has been as successful at demonizing alcohol as MTV's The Real World. Watch it sometime. You'll never want to drink again.
Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Suzy Hansen
Music for Change Music for Change
Springsteen's got it right: No retreat.
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Toomey and Rob Rosenthal
Are Students Red or Blue? Are Students Red or Blue?
The war rages on to win hearts and minds on colleges campuses.
Dec 22, 2004 / Feature / Sam Graham-Felsen
Who Let the Punks Out? Who Let the Punks Out?
The young and the angry mosh the vote for the November election.
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Kristin V. Jones
Discipline and Punish Discipline and Punish
Zero tolerance policies have created a "lockdown environment" in schools.
Nov 26, 2003 / Feature / Annette Fuentes
Rocking the Hip-Hop Vote Rocking the Hip-Hop Vote
Russell Simmons was never a young voter. The 46-year-old hip-hop tycoon cast his first vote in a presidential election seven years ago, he says, at the age of 39.
Nov 13, 2003 / Kristin V. Jones
The New Mobility The New Mobility
A recent article in the Washington Post described some suburban high schoolers preparing for their proms by spending nearly $3,000 to rent an H2 Hummerzine, "complete with six ...
Jun 5, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams