Cuban rapper Leandro Medina Fellové, better known as Insurrecto, was apprehended by U.S. immigration authorities following a ...

This Wednesday, the Cuban community awoke to the heartbreaking news of the death of Manolín Vázquez, a sound engineer and ...

Editor's Note: Features reporter Liz Dennerlein spent time in Havana, Cuba, exploring the underground rap scene. Here is her firsthand account. Dreadlocks down his back and a stern look on his face, ...

Each Friday, Roads & Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe. For more foreign correspondence mixed with food, war, travel, and photography, visit their online magazine or ...

The fire of revolution has spread to Cuba! Director Jesse Acevedo risked his own freedom; using hidden camera methods, he brings viewers inside the brewing Cuban revolution. Those filmed are at risk, ...

I was sitting with the Afrocentric rapstress Magia López Cabrera in her modest Havana walk-up in June when Cuba’s prominent black-history scholar Tomás Fernández Robaina showed up for a café con leche ...

Jay-Z has a new problem: Critics of his recent trip to Cuba. And on Thursday, the rapper released a new track responding to these critics, who have questioned why the government allowed Jay-Z and his ...

Harvard’s Hiphop Archive & Research Institute is part production studio, part classroom and part research lab. It’s something of a museum for hip-hop history. Vintage Nike sneakers, boomboxes and ...

PANAMA CITY – Cuban rapper Skuadron Patriota paced the stage and dedicated his next song to his mom – and moms everywhere who have lost sons to street fights or perilous raft trips from his island ...

It's all well and good being a friend of the most powerful man in the western world but making false claims about the President of the United States might not be Jay-Z's wisest career move. Because ...