UMKC Women’s Center hosted a Feminist Film Friday, featuring the first episode of the new Netflix series “Ladies First: A Story of Women In Hip-Hop.”    Chelsie Duckworth, the senior program coordinator for the Women’s Center, organized the event to highlight...

  Rae Sremmurd tickets for the UMKC Union Board Programming Spring Concert were released on Monday. Ticket prices for students are $10, and tickets for the public will open on March 27 for $30. The concert will be held on April 19 at the Swinney Recreational Center. Doors open...

Press Play is my weekly series of (mostly) indie tracks from the barely discovered depths of corporate DSPs. All my recommended tracks are compiled into the Spotify playlist linked below, which is updated weekly. Bando. & Isaiah Rashad, “Payday” After making a...

Hip hop emerged in the early 1970s and changed what people knew as music. When DJ Kool Herc began scratching records, it enticed everyone who heard. It was different, cool and new. Hip hop is now the most-streamed genre in the world.  At first, hip hop was all about storytelling...

Snoop Dogg, adorned in a University of Kansas basketball jersey and a pair of sunglasses, shouts at the DJ to “gimme somethin’ for the ladies... this one’s for YOU.” He grins. Six young women come out in short shorts and heels and begin to climb on four dancing poles...