Looks at the impact that black basketball players and their hip-hop influence has had on American culture.

In Young, Black, Rich, and Famous, Todd Boyd chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1970s to being

The most creative moments of African American culture have always emanated from a lower class or "ghetto" perspective. In contemporary society, this ghetto aest

The African American influence on popular culture is among the most sweeping and lasting this country has seen. Despite a history of institutionalized racism, b

The popularity and globalization of sport have led to an ever-increasing migration of Black athletes from the global South to the United States and Western Euro