This...album..is...amazing!!!!!!! NPR'S First Listen: Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio [Album] or HERE Tracklisting 01 Lift Off/Mic Check (featuring Shafiq Husayn) 02 Afro Blue (featuring Erykah Badu) 03 Cherish The Day (featuring Lalah Hathaway) 04 Always Shine (featuring Lu... Read more...
Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friend, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of ... Read more...
John Langston Gwaltney John Langston Gwaltney was a writer and anthropologist focused on African American culture, best known for his book Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America. He was a professor of anthropology at the University of Syracuse in New York. Drylongso is a collection of... Read more...
Honestly, I couldn't bring myself to post this any other time but after hearing about Whitney, I figured that since R.I.P. most people cant even fathom what its like to be trapped in the spotlight, reading this might help them out. Death, a shape, a thing. Death, a sound, a movement. Death ... Read more...
Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48. Houston's publicist, Kristen Foster, said Saturday that the singer had died, but... Read more...
Twenty men-teachers, businessmen, writers and pastors-have been named winners of the BME Leadership Award, created to honor black men in Philadelphia and Detroit who step up to lead the community. "There is no cavalry coming to save the day in black communities in America. The answers we're looki... Read more...
Audre Lorde Audrey Geraldine Lorde was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist. Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s — in Langston Hughes' 1962 New Negro Poets, USA; in several foreign anthologies; and in black literary magazines. During this time, she wa... Read more...
A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution. Director: Ivan Dixon Writers: Sam Greenlee (screenplay), Melvin Clay (screenplay), and 1 more credit » Stars: Lawrence Cook, Janet League and Paula Kell... Read more...
Sterling Allen Brown Sterling Allen Brown was a professor, author of works on folklore, poet and literary critic. Some of his works are Southern Road, Harcourt, Brace and company, and Negro Poetry. In the early 1980s his Collected Poems won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the bes... Read more...