Heading into the 90s, hip-hop and urban culture was on the verge of a new frontier. With the music, fashion, and lingo bred by hip-hop beginning to infiltrate pop culture, new cultural institutions ...

In honor of National Comedy Month, theGrio ranks the best music spoofs from the classic Fox sketch show “In Living Color.” The theme song to Fox’s “In Living Color” started with “You can do what you ...

The iconic sketch comedy show In Living Color premiered 35 years ago, on April 15, 1990. The hit series ran for five seasons and featured a big cast who went on to build illustrious careers in ...

In the summer of 1989, while Spike Lee's “Do the Right Thing” was sounding a thunderclap in cinemas, a troupe of largely black actors and comedians came together on a Fox sound stage in Century City ...

Long before Chance the Rapper spoofed Lil Pump on Saturday Night Live or Dave Chappelle had half of America imitating Lil Jon, In Living Color blazed the trail for hip-hop parody. The Fox sketch ...

For one brief, shining moment in the early-'90s, it seemed like In Living Color could have the kind of longevity as its obvious rival, Saturday Night Live. The sketch comedy series, which premiered on ...

Of course, you remember Keenen as the writer and creator of In Living Color, before he left the show due to disputes with the network over censorship. In Living Color won an Emmy Award in 1990 for ...