So if you happen to be reading these words, odds are that the news program that you’ve watched today as you’ve made your coffee or lounged on your couch contained at least one story about the chaos of the current federal government. Your newspaper has headlines of the roughshod rhetoric of President...

I got wind of High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul online - but in a way that was unexpected, and which I would soon come to learn, a little unfair. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that a book about one of the Hip-Hop groups I adore was on the horizon. But the group’s reaction to this book by...