Emmett Till

Kanye West renounces celebrity status at New York City concert

2013-05-16 11:39:00

Someone alert the paparazzi: Kanye West is not a celebrity, and you guys can pack up and go home. Nothing to see here. That was the intended takeaway, at least, from another classic-Kanye monologue during West's set Thursday night at the Roseland...

PepsiCo-Lil Wayne split marks shaky alliance of rappers, business

2013-05-10 05:00:00

Corporations are quick to recruit rappers to sell their soft drinks, shoes and smartphones — but the moment there's a whiff of controversy, they are just as quick to cut them loose. The latest example is PepsiCo and Lil Wayne. Last week, the...

Lil Wayne, PepsiCo's Mountain Dew part ways after controversy

2013-05-03 17:14:00

In a week that has already seen PepsiCo pull an ad developed by Odd Future ringleader Tyler, the Creator, the beverage giant is severing ties with another rapper, Lil Wayne. PepsiCo announced it has ended its partnership with the rapper over a vulgar...

Kanye West reveals June 18 as ... something

2013-05-02 07:09:00

Kanye West took to Twitter on Thursday morning for a major announcement: "June Eighteen." And that's it -- no context, no explanation, no additional clues as to what that date might bring. Is it the release date for his new album, which Pop & Hiss...

Lil Wayne apologizes to Emmett Till family

2013-05-01 12:25:00

Months after Lil Wayne created a firestorm for lyrics that name-dropped slain civil rights figure Emmett Till along with a vulgar sexual reference, the rapper has formally apologized to Till’s family. In a letter sent to the Till family, which...

Rick Ross apologizes for lyric 'interpreted as rape'

2013-04-05 06:00:00

For the last week Rick Ross has been engulfed in a firestorm over recent lyrics that seemingly promote date rape. Although the track, "U.O.E.N.O." (a collaboration with Future and Atlanta emcee Rocko; warning: link contains profanity) has been out for...

Epic to pull track with Lil Wayne's vulgar reference to Emmett Till

2013-02-14 10:50:00

This post has been updated. See note below for details. Epic Records Chairman Antonio “L.A.” Reid has apologized to the family of slain civil rights figure Emmett Till and his label is working to remove from circulation a remix of the...

In FBI records, clues about a photographer's work as an informant

2013-02-08 06:30:00

Ernest Withers watched the trajectory of the civil rights movement from behind his camera lens. He was in Mississippi in 1955 when an all-white jury acquitted two white men accused of brutally murdering Emmett Till, a visiting black Chicago teenager,...

California lawmakers don hoodies to protest Trayvon Martin case

2012-03-29 16:40:32

Music review: Wadada Leo Smith’s 'Ten Freedom Summers,' REDCAT

2011-10-31 16:33:07

Koreatown: Bennett Bradley, 60 [Updated]

2010-01-06 04:33:39

Bob Dylan demos, early mono albums on the way

2010-08-24 16:35:45

Anne & Emmett cast. Front L2R: Zasha Shary (Anne Frank) and Shawn Burgess (Emmett Till) Back L2R: Sheldon Cohen (Otto Frank), Tommy O'Brien (J.W. Milam) and Kandace Crystal (Mamie Till)

2013-04-19 12:49:00

Emmett Till, shown in 1955 with his mother, was killed in Mississippi that year, a case that became a flashpoint in the civil rights movement.

2013-02-14 09:23:40

Chicago composer Ernest Dawkins during "UnTill Emmett Till," an incendiary jazz opera about the murder of Emmett Till, penned by Dawkins and performed by singer Dee Alexander, poet Khari B. and a roaring orchestra.

2012-09-11 11:40:00