April 30th is International Jazz Day and various cultural workers, artists, educational institutions and fans will observe it with concerts, workshops, film-viewings and exhibitions. The Jazzday website will stream the Sunset and Sunrise concerts tomorrow live from their New Orleans and New York City locations. Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Ellis Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Ron Carter, [...]
(April 19, 2012—Los Angeles, CA) Grammy award winning rapper/producer David Banner will appear at The LA Riots: Twenty Years Later Conference taking place on April 27 & 28 at Harvard University. The conference brings together leading scholars, activists and artists to look back at –and forward from- the LA Riots. It will combine a critical [...]
DURHAM, N.C. — More than a dozen prominent African-American scholars will participate in a conference on the role of social media in cultural studies, April 6-7 at Duke University.
Washington, DC – As a response to the growing needs of same-gender-loving (SGL) and bi-sexual black men, Black Men’s Xchange (BMX) National remains in the forefront as an organization aggressively advancing an agenda that addresses issues pertinent to the overall health and well-beingness of the Black community at large. In addition to the establishment of [...]
1. Do you agree with Mary J. Blige that the Academy Awards are “being mean” because they did not nominate “Living Proof” for the ‘Best Original Song’ category?
Gza will be across the pond this weekend to do a lecture at Oxford University and fulfill some tour dates. His follow-up to 2008′s Pro Tools will come out later this year and he is also scheduled to lecture at MIT, NYU and Cornell. Gza Tour Dates: 1/27 Sheffield, UK @ O2 Academy 1/28 Oxford, [...]
Los Angeles – The Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant celebrates Black History Month 2012 with this year’s event slated for be held Sunday, February 12, 2012, 4:00 p.m. at the Wishire Ebell Theater, 4401 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. The longest running pageant for little African American misses, the scholarship event has a history [...]
3. Is the course being taught on Jay-Z at Georgetown University by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson a legitimate and worthwhile offering?
Santa Fe, N.M.—November 29, 2011—Santa Fe University of Art and Design will bring the internationally renowned hip-hop group Public Enemy to campus Saturday, April 28, 2012. The daylong event will kick off with a community conversation with frontman and lyricist Chuck D. and producer and bassist Brian Hardgroove and will culminate in a live Public [...]
GZA/The Genius will deliver a lecture about his life in The Wu-Tang Clan, his music and creativity onThursday, December 1 at 4 p.m. The lecture, hosted by the Harvard’s Black Men’s Forum, will be followed by Q&A and is open to the public. While in Cambridge, The Genius, who is an avid student of many [...]
