Today we will be talking with Journalist and Hip-Hop Icon Charlie Braxton. Charlie Braxton a McComb, Mississippi, native and Jackson State University graduate, is a poet, playwright, and music and culture critic. He has written the plays Blues Man and Artist Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and the critically acclaimed collection of poetry Ascension from the Ashes. Braxton’s works have appeared in the African American Review, the Washington Post, The Black Nation, Catalyst, Crossroads, Candle, Drum Voices Review, CutBank, Minnesota Review, San Fernando Poetry Journal, Eyeball, Sepia Poetry Review, and Black Magnolias Literary Journal. His poems have been anthologized in Word Up: Black Poetry from the Deep South, In the Tradition, Soulfires, Step Into a World, Bum Rush the Page, and Role Call. As a hip-hop scholar, Braxton has written for numerous publications, including The Source, Vibe, Murder Dog, and Doula. Join us TODAY! as we converse with a legend!