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When Serena Williams won the 2012 Summer Olympics tennis tournament against Maria Sharapova 6-0 6-1, she did a victory dance. But it was not just any victory dance. It was the Crip Walk.

It’s official: Kendrick Lamar’s performance is going down in history as the most watched Super Bowl halftime show of all time. And one of the most dissected moments was the surprise appearance by ...

I put off watching the new Netflix documentary, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. As a disability rights colleague commented on my Facebook page, “Sometimes, when a film is loudly touted as ‘it’s ...

Created by the Crips street gang in the 1970s, the iconic dance move became a fixture in popular culture after being popularized by rappers from the West Coast. The TikTok user’s rendition of the ...

Crips are a Los Angeles-based street gang notorious for involvement in several illegal activities. These activities involve auto theft, extortion, robbery, fraud, assault, burglary, drug dealing, and ...

Shortly after Philando Castile was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, on 5 July 2016, the disreputable web site Got News assembled a variety of images mixed ...

The amount of material in the new Netflix documentary Crip Camp — titled after the nickname given to Camp Jened, a summer camp for disabled teenagers — could easily have filled a miniseries rather ...

“I can do everything everyone else can do, it just takes me longer and maybe I do it differently.” This is a common response to my question, “What do you wish people knew about your disability?” I ...