The Hip-Hop Trailblazer Who Demanded Recognition — and Pay — for Her Work

Funk You Up” had a playful chorus that mimicked a game of musical chairs: “Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, ...

The Lives They Lived: Remembering Those Who Died in 2025.

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 into a family of strivers in Queens, she split her time between her mother’s home in New ...