A cover story in Time magazine from 1999 argued that hip-hop “is perhaps the only art form that celebrates capitalism openly”. Never has the connection between those two forces—rap music and ...

With the "bigger better" second annual The Big Payback just days away, my email inbox is full of requests for money, my home mailbox is jammed with charitable solicitations, and I am close to being ...

When filmmakers Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow sought to make a documentary about the ongoing fight for reparations in the United States, they initially thought it would center the history of the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The Big Payback is usually held at the beginning of May, but the online giving event was postponed this year. The fundraiser supported food banks, schools, animal rescue ...

When Erika Alexander (Living Single, John Lewis: Good Trouble) and Whitney Dow (Two Towns of Jasper, Whiteness Project) first set out to creat a prjct about reparations, they expected to make a thesis ...

The book's opening line couldn't have set the stage better: "The man who invented American money lived and died in Harlem." Thus begins The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, a ...

So far this month, my email inbox has been overflowing with notes alerting me to opportunities to give money to local charities through the upcoming The Big Payback. If you are like me and wonder, ...

Thirty years ago, hip-hop was background noise at small house parties in Harlem and the South Bronx. Now, it's a multibillion-dollar empire. A new book, The Big Payback: The History of the Business of ...

Over the past two decades no music industry has grown faster than hip-hop. “The Big Payback” is a detailed and real to life accounting of the business of music, giving readers a behind-the-scenes look ...

The book's opening line couldn't have set the stage better: "The man who invented American money lived and died in Harlem." Thus begins The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, a ...