(JUNETEENTH) Once upon a time, hip-hop produced not only rappers but intellectuals. These men and women often used complicated rhymes to critique our race-and-class-structured society. One such rapper is Talib Kweli, who…

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...