DJ Jazzy Jeff loves to take trips down memory lane. The music icon was in Atlanta to curate the inaugural Jukebox: A Retro Active Dance Party series at 595 North. Playing before a packed house, the turntablist bobs his head precis...
Ryan Coogler is the writer/filmmaker responsible for the tear-jerking independent feature, Fruitvale Station. The 27-year-old Oakland native with a serious Bay Area accent earned the coveted Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at ...
Ryan Coogler is the writer/filmmaker responsible for the tear-jerking independent feature, Fruitvale Station. The 27-year-old Oakland native with a serious Bay Area accent earned the coveted Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at ...
On Saturday, June 29, 2013, the first Afro Latino Festival of New York: Listen to the Echo of the Drums in Latin America was held in Flatbush, Brooklyn, home to one of the largest Caribbean and Afro Latino communities in New York ...
To say that this has been a crazy week is pretty much an understatement. With the U.S. Supreme Court gutting section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, sending affirmative action back to the state legislatures, the Trayvon Martin trial w...
To say that this has been a crazy week is pretty much an understatement. With the U.S. Supreme Court gutting section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, sending affirmative action back to the state legislatures, the Trayvon Martin trial w...
The 17th Annual Black American Film Festival (June 19-23) held court in Miami with star-studded appearances, movie premieres and parties with a who’s who of Black Hollywood icons, newcomers and festival patrons from all over...
“…black people in this country [should] unite, recognize their heritage, and build a sense of community.” – Stokley Carmichael Kwame Ture born Stokley Carmichael On June 17, 1966, Stokley Carmichael of the Student Nonv...
Shadow and Act is reporting that veteran television director and writer Paris Barclay has been named president of the Director’s Guild of America (DGA). He is the first African-American to be named to this position in the hi...
Brazil’s new generation of “caras pintadas,” social media and the new face of democratic protest OPINION by Ian Walcott In 1992 as an undergrad student at the University of Brasilia, I remembered looking through the window of my h...