Suit Up, Ladies (and “Smart” Gentlemen): The Sixth Annual Suits, Stilettos, and Lipstick Empowerment & Leadership Conference Descends To Fort Lauderdale August 25-26

Girl Power. Sisterhood. Womanhood. Third Wave Feminism. Womanism. Lean In. #BlackGirlMagic #BlackGirlsRock #SquadGoals. #SquadCare. Girl Boss. Over the years and with every new generation, we as women have constructed cultural phrases that elicit an almost innate response of engagement and fellowship amongst each other. But unfortunately, media has given us this false assumption that we...

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Binge Up: Top 6 Must-See TV Shows and Films To See Before School Starts

As July slowly gives way to August, Back To School Season has unofficially begun with its trademark department store commercials (even calling on your kids’ favorite comic book superheroes to inspire their clothing and school supply choices). But as adults, we can only cringe over our “lost” summer, reflecting on all of the things we...

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Apology, #BlackLivesMatter, Staying #Woke and Redemption: How Jay-Z Answers Beyonce’s Lemonade with Tidal Exclusive Album 4:44

11:59 PM Thursday, June 23, 2017 The longest minute in my life. Why? Because like the “Hova” masses with their Golden Ticket aka Tidal Music Premium subscription, I was waiting for the most anticipated album of the year to drop for streaming and offline listening. And then it was midnight and after I refreshed my...

Musica

Top Five Projects at ABFF 2017

When you think about a festival that gives a platform to independent filmmakers, you may automatically think of Sundance or Cannes, maybe even Pan African. If you are a person of color with a film or television project, it’s difficult to find a venue that would offer the access needed to get quality distribution deals....

Film

Urban Shock Jock and MTV2 Host Charlamagne Tha God Steps Up For His Community with Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It

In the age of Trump and an unsure sense of purpose in the minds of young people of color in the United States, it has been the added responsibility of media and public figures like MSNBC’s Ms. Joy Reid, Mr. Roland S. Martin, and political strategist Ms. Angela Rye to fill in the gaps of...

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Books and Books Charlemagne tha God

Spice It Up Miami Brings Culinary Excellence and Sizzling Salsa to Little Haiti

I am a foodie. This fact has been very present in my life since maybe twenty years ago, when I tasted my first hot fudge sundae at a nostalgic Americana diner with my friends one weekend (or on a Sunday). The ingredients weren’t anything special – 50’s era glass ice cream container, two scoops of...

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Origins of American Hip Hop Gets Reimagined in Baz Luhrmann’s Season 2 Series The Get Down

If you are like me, you know that the #NetflixandChill movement is a relaxing alternative to going out (and spending extra money) on the weekends. Here, the participant gets into his/her uniform of comfortable pajamas, secures the premium viewing area, a sturdy blanket, snacks, and drinks, sets up the desired queue of binge-worthy new shows...

Performance

Day Two of Jazz in the Gardens concludes with Esperanza Spalding, Andra Day, Hip Hop Giants The Roots, Common and LL Cool J

Above: Jill Scott at Jazz in the Gardens. Photo by MediaPunch/Rex/Shutterstock So coming from Saturday’s line-up, the 12th Annual Jazz in the Gardens did not disappoint with Sunday’s acts which included Gospel artist Smokie Norful, Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist and singer-songwriter Esperanza Spalding, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon House Band and Philly’s own The...

Musica

Hail to “The Chief”: Jidenna’s Nigerian-Tinged Hip Hop Reigns Supreme

To be honest, I have always been a cautious consumer of hip hop over the years. For the last few decades, the spectrum of hip hop music has fluctuated between “Stay Woke” cultural reflection of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” and Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power,” house party bangers of Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push...

Musica

Classism, Racism, Slavery and Reconstruction: How Free State of Jones Complicates America’s Narrative and Empowers the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

From this day forward we declare the land north of Pascagoula Swamp, south of enterprise and east to the Pearl River to the Alabama border, to be a FREE STATE OF JONES. Thus begins the oral manifest delivered by Newton Knight to his makeshift band of 125 widowed/abandoned mothers, Confederate deserters and runaway slaves who...

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Suit Up, Ladies (and “Smart” Gentlemen): The Sixth Annual Suits, Stilettos, and Lipstick Empowerment & Leadership Conference Descends To Fort Lauderdale August 25-26

Binge Up: Top 6 Must-See TV Shows and Films To See Before School Starts

Apology, #BlackLivesMatter, Staying #Woke and Redemption: How Jay-Z Answers Beyonce’s Lemonade with Tidal Exclusive Album 4:44

Top Five Projects at ABFF 2017

Urban Shock Jock and MTV2 Host Charlamagne Tha God Steps Up For His Community with Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It

Spice It Up Miami Brings Culinary Excellence and Sizzling Salsa to Little Haiti

Origins of American Hip Hop Gets Reimagined in Baz Luhrmann’s Season 2 Series The Get Down

Day Two of Jazz in the Gardens concludes with Esperanza Spalding, Andra Day, Hip Hop Giants The Roots, Common and LL Cool J

Hail to “The Chief”: Jidenna’s Nigerian-Tinged Hip Hop Reigns Supreme

Classism, Racism, Slavery and Reconstruction: How Free State of Jones Complicates America’s Narrative and Empowers the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

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