Ahead of Sunday evening’s Academy Awards ceremony, we rounded up an esteemed cast of creators, journalists, and executives to get real about this year’s Oscar hopefuls.

Jermaine Dupri discusses executive producing Hulu's Freaknik documentary and his ambitions as a Southern culture griot

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Hip-hop’s relationship with U.S. presidents is... complicated. Jesse Washington—director and writer of the upcoming documentary Hip-Hop and the White House—speaks on covering the past, present, and future of this imperfect union.