Rap on Trial: How An Aspiring Musician's Words Led To Prison Time
Olutosin Oduwole was a college student and aspiring rap star when he was charged with "attempting to make a terrorist threat." Did public perceptions of rap music play a role?
by Shankar Vedantam
May 07, 2018
1 minute
Olutosin Oduwole was in his dorm room at Southern Illinois University when police knocked on his door one day in 2007. They were there to arrest him.
"In my mind I'm
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