On his Tumblr, Frank Ocean recently posted a video for “Lost,” one of the most immediate and accessible songs from his 2012 masterwork Channel Orange. The clip is a split-screen travelogue that follows Ocean through places like Dubai, Paris, and Tokyo, and it works as a cool, calm, and collect... Read more...
For Master Historian, Prof. Manning Marable of Columbia University, a book on the life of Malcolm X could only be a challenge that would daunt the faint-hearted. Dr. Marable, founder of nearly half a dozen Black studies programs at colleges and universities across the country, would meet ... Read more...