NEW YORK —American entrepreneurs have made millions in the real estate market. Unfortunately it is an industry that is too often closed to underprivileged people, though they have their own enterprising dreams. Despite the current real estate slump, real estate mogul SPAR-aka-Leonard Person JR., CEO and Founder of Hood Estate,Continue Reading
In 1982, a small independent movie written, produced and directed by Charlie Ahearn was released, first in Germany, Japan and Cannes, then finally in Times Square. Wild Style, the first film to unite the elemental art forms of nascent Hip Hop culture was filmed on location in the South BronxContinue Reading
Hip-Hop’s transformation from an organic folk culture bred in the Bronx with roots in Afro-diasporic cultural practices into a commercially-successful zeitgeist of cool has put a lot of the artform’s core values at stake. After 30 years of popping, scratching, emceeing, tagging, Phat Farm, Def Jam, BET and The SourceContinue Reading
THIRD COAST fully explores the history of rap as it emerged out of the South through many crosscurrents. Sarig goes way back to the oral tradition of slaves in the South, field hollers, the blues and gospel, and connects the dots to early 20th century African American radio announcers whoContinue Reading