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You Still a Black Queen, Mama
Fate’s a bitch ain’t it? I mean here we are. Celebrating what the magic realist, essayist, poet, and literary seer of sorts Ben Okri, regards as “probably the first great historic moment with a positive charge in the 21st Century.”
The man you are bound to hear about and from, [...]
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For people in the 1960s Freedom and Justice movement, the 1968 marriage of Miriam Makeba and Stokely Carmichael was our wedding of the century.
Scores of activists from SNCC, SCLC, CORE, the Black Panther Party, Congress of African Peoples and assorted other civil rights, nationalist and Pan Africanist folks, a number of African diplomats and other African dignitaries all gathered [...]
JEAN GRAE’S BRIGHT SHINY MORNING
They convince you that you’re over-the-hill and too old to rap at age 30, or that gay people have no place in hip-hop music. Now who are they? The fuck if I know.
They fear the wizened perspective of grown rappers and the out-the-closet insights of gay emcees, and they definitely don’t [...]
Seeing Sounds»
So N*E*R*D’s back, flaunting all the appropriate characteristics for the ideal postmodern pop-rock band
Neo-Hoodoo: Art of a Forgotten Faith By Valerie Cassell Oliver»
With this second major exhibition at the Menil Collection since his arrival in 2006, Franklin Sirmans has reignited the conversation surrounding art and spirituality.
Honoring Our Mothers by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis»We often try to keep time positioned vertically, aligning our personal histories, created years or even minutes ago, to direct our new present.