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BET Honors/ Hennessy VS After Party With Common, Raekwon, Anthony Hamilton, Aretha Franklin & More

Last night in Washington, D.C., Common, Aretha Franklin, Raekwon, Jill Scott, Anthony Hamilton, DJ D-Nice, and more, all came out to celebrate MLK weekend and the BET Honors at the “Hennessy VS BET Honors After Party” event at The Park on Fourteenth and at The National Portrait Gallery. The gang of celebrities started out their night at the BET Honors and afte wards, they party hopped from one Hennessy VS event to the other. It was like a high school reunion for the artists who chatted with each other and danced the night away. Below are a few photos. (Continue…)

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BET Honors/ Hennessy VS After Party With Common, Raekwon, Anthony Hamilton, Aretha Franklin & More

Would Dr. Martin Luther King Approve Of Hip-Hop’s Current State?

Martin Luther King, Jr. still remains an iconic and towering figure of the African-American Civil Rights movement, his distinctive timbre still ringing in the minds of anyone who has ever heard one of his many recorded speeches. King’s assassination in April of 1968 took place at a pivotal time, just a scant five or so years before the early seeds of Hip-Hop were being planted by a teenaged Jamaican immigrant named Clive Campbell, who went on to become the legendary DJ Kool Herc. (Continue…)

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Would Dr. Martin Luther King Approve Of Hip-Hop’s Current State?