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Rap lyrics or criminal evidence? Brian Steel says Black artists are being judged by a different standard
Brian Steel is putting prosecutors on notice over a courtroom practice that has followed hip hop artists for decades: turning ...
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld Billy Barrino’s life sentence, rejecting challenges to the admission of rap ...
From Snoop to Thugger, prosecutors have put rap lyrics on trial. These cases show what happens when bars move from the booth to the courtroom. Rap has always carried testimony, but in courtrooms ...
The nonprofit organization Free Our Art is partnering with elected officials, educators, and music industry organizations to combat the criminalization of rap. Together, they’re advocating for the ...
Some of rap music’s biggest names have come out in support of a Black man, whose rap lyrics were cited during his sentencing in Texas. He is on death row. In 2009, a nearly all-white jury convicted ...
Travis Scott, Young Thug, Killer Mike, and a number of other artists and scholars have petitioned the Supreme Court to halt the execution of James Garfield Broadnax, a 19-year-old Black man whose rap ...
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