Don't Knock the Rap: A Response to Venise Berrry's "Redeeming the Rap Music Experience" Rap music has been getting a bad rap from parents, legislators, and other authority figures ever since it first hit the American pop music scene in the early 1980's. Adults ...

It would be a severe understatement to tritely say that the sixties and seventies in the United States were a time of social change. Rather, in all appropriateness, it would be far more relevant to state that these decades were the pivotal point of sociological, economical, and moral change in the d...

I'm so tired of elected officials, politician wanna-be's, and media whores posturing and pretending that they know what's best for the entire country. Are we Americans so ignorant that we need fringe members of the government to tell us what is and what isn't acceptable entertainment for our kids??...

Praise His Holy Name Arlington High School Choir Dept. is known for many positive things. One of those things is different styles of music. We have sang classical, jazz, pop, Latin, African, Spanish, Chinese, and many other different styles of music. Every thing we sing has its place and reaso...

It seems that it may be mass media or pop culture that seems to portray talking "black" cool. Karla D. Scott from Saint Louis University makes the point that many people in main- stream America have the, "perception that black language use also indicates stupidity on the part of the ...

MLK Jr., Today. In a letter from a Birmingham jail, dated April 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, "We have waited fore more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights." He made great strides to achieving those rights for African Americans during his li...

Popular culture is the artistic and creative expression in entertainment and style that appeals to society as whole. It includes music, film, sports, painting, sculpture, and even photography. It can be diffused in many ways, but one of the most powerful and effective ways to address society is thr...

Fight The Power Public Enemy wrote a song about racism, censorship and freedom. This song was popular among its time back in the late 80's and earlier 90's. The song I'm talking about of course is "Fight The Power", the title its self is self explanatory. Public En...