No, that defendant is not former President Donald Trump (though tricky First Amendment issues swirl around his case brought by District Attorney Fani Willis’s office, as well). The defendant, Jeffery ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Next month, the Supreme Court of New Jersey will hear arguments about whether rap ...

The Decriminalizing Artistic Expression Act restricts the use of rap lyrics during criminal trials in the state Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at ...

On the afternoon of March 16th, 2017, aspiring rapper Anthony Murillo stood to hear the jury’s verdict – the culmination of a weeklong trial in which prosecutors argued that he had used a rap song to ...

Seven years ago, middle of the day in Newport News, Virginia, and someone starts shooting. When local police arrived at the scene, they found two young victims. A twenty year-old was laying near death ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on Friday the state’s “rap lyrics” bill that would limit the admissibility of “creative content” as evidence in criminal or civil proceedings against an ...