Sam Collier is a child of hip-hop and R&B. Growing up, the 35-year-old pastor of Story Church Atlanta fed on the music of Tupac, Biggie and OutKast. So perhaps it’s no surprise that when Collier first ...

Amid allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs and questions of whether hip-hop’s #MeToo moment has come, is the Black Church also due for a reckoning? “Notes on faith” is theGrio’s inspirational, ...

The fact that rapper, writer, publisher, and pastor Tommy “Urban D.” Kyllonen feels called to minister to the inner city is no great surprise—“urban” is literally his middle name, after all. What is ...

MINNEAPOLIS - A passerby hearing the bass track thumping from Urban Jerusalem on a Saturday night easily might conclude that it's a nightclub. Inside, that opinion would only be strengthened by the ...

Join The Root as we live-stream WGBH TV’s Basic Black program as it takes on the state of the black church in today’s hip-hop world. As black parishioners evolve, is the black church addressing the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A passerby hearing the bass track thumping from Urban Jerusalem on a Saturday night easily might conclude that it's a nightclub. Inside, that opinion would only be strengthened by the ...

From civil rights to hip hop : a meditation / Alton B. Pollard III -- Dissed-enfranchised : the Black church under the steeple / Joshua Hutchinson -- Chasing a dream deferred : from movement to ...

*Immanuel Presbyterian Church in LA may not immediately come to mind when thinking about neo soul and hip hop, but the Koreatown-based location will be the setting for tribute concerts celebrating ...

Hip hop is often associated with inner city struggles, but a new form of the genre is being used by Florida churches to convey positive messages to audiences at home and abroad. Members of First ...

In 2018, Cardi B challenged proponents of the #MeToo, #SayHerName and the Hollywood #TimesUp movements about their bias and respectability politics when she told us the music industry was an unsafe ...

MINNEAPOLIS - A passer-by hearing the bass track thumping from Urban Jerusalem on a Saturday night easily might conclude it's a nightclub. Inside, that opinion would only be strengthened by the ...