MayaAngelo Maya Angelou is an amazing author and poet. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her first seventeen ... Read more...
Voice-over expert, Xavier Paul, has over 25 years of professional voice-over/on-camera experience with recent credits including new on air promo announcer for the NBA, narrator for the History Channel’s UFO Files, characters on the video game, Grand Theft Auto (San Andreas), new character on the a... Read more...
A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago's South Side. Over the past decade, the inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and cultu... Read more...
The day after my twenty-seventh birthday, I am sitting here thinking life is moving fast around me and I am stuck in my ways. I see people I went to high school with, co-workers; shoot even people younger than me are getting married. This train of thought isn’t about marriage but it has me think... Read more...
Cam'ron - Horse & Carriage Remix Feat. Wyclef, Silkk The Shocker, Big Pun & Charli Baltimore Read more...
Ernest Green hit the roads of the segregated South as a teen in the 1950s, using a travel guide that pointed out safe havens where African-Americans could eat and stay. The pamphlet promoted vacation without humiliation. On that trip in the 1950s, Green journeyed the 1,000 miles from Arkansa... Read more...
The word “pioneer” gets used a lot when it comes to hip-hop. But understand this, people: Bobby Robinson, who passed away last Friday, at age 93, defined the words “rap industry pioneer.” He opened up his own record shop in Harlem in 1946 (which is well beyond old school or even ancient s... Read more...
1. "Harambee Niggas" (featuring JR Writer) 2. "A Dipset Kwanzaa" 3. "Kugi-Pop-A-Nigga" (featuring Cam’Ron & Hell Rell) 4. "Light That Shit(Dem Candles)" 5. "My First Kufi" (featuring Nas) 6. "Cook Coke For Kwanzaa" (featuring Juelz Santana) 7. "Dashiki Cost A Mil" 8.... Read more...
Later this month, the Hip-Hop Theater Festival (HHTF) will celebrate its 10-year anniversary with live, professionally executed theater written by members of the Hip-Hop generation, organizers told AllHipHop.com today (September 16th). The HHTF has collaborated with leading arts venues, includi... Read more...