NEW YORK — Nia Long plays Roxanne Shante's mother in a new docudrama on the rap pioneer's life, but when the actress and Shante sit down to chat in real life, their bond reveals itself to be ...

Roxanne’s revenge was sweet indeed. Twenty-five years after the first queen of hip-hop was stiffed on her royalty checks, Dr. Roxanne Shante boasts an Ivy League Ph.D. – financed by a f… ...

NEW YORK — Nia Long plays Roxanne Shante’s mother in a new docudrama on the rap pioneer’s life, but when the actress and Shante sit down to chat in real ...

Nia Long will not lose. Just a few weeks after ABC announced it was canceling Uncle Buck (after a single season) the 45-year-old beauty popped up on Roxanne Shanté’s Instagram page and revealed ...

When it was done, some 87 “Roxanne” tracks had been released, according to Shante. The artist — a mother of two grown children who now lives in Newark, NJ, runs an education nonprofit for ...

The first time you press play on Roxanne Shanté’s visionary hip-hop single “Roxanne’s Revenge,” you’re hearing it just as the artist did: with no idea about what’s coming next.

At 14, Roxanne Shanté become a revered rapper in New York and beyond. ... [Shanté's mother] had to be hard, no nonsense. One of her rules was nobody should be out past 9 p.m.

Rather than a conventional music biopic about an ’80s hip-hop artist and her place in history, “Roxanne Roxanne” is more of a compelling personal saga that happens to be interspersed with music.