August Greene’s new video “Optimistic” featuring Brandy highlights Black Greatness
The trio August Greene won an Emmy last year for outstanding original music and lyrics for their song “Letter to the Free,” recorded for Ava DuVernay’s Netflix...
Dwyane Wade talks his return to Miami
Dwyane Wade did not see this coming. Not right now, anyway. He has fully believed for many months that he would eventually return to the Miami Heat, though he figured it...
Beyoncé’s father Mathew Knowles takes on ‘colorism’: He dated her mother because he thought she was white
Racism is a common topic in the mainstream media. But an insidious cousin, colorism, gets less attention. Novelist Alice Walker defined colorism in a 1982 essay as...
Bruno Mars is urging the NFL to book a hip-hop artist for the 2019 Super Bowl in Atlanta!
The 2018 Super Bowl is old news — we’re on to 2019, and Bruno Mars is already pitching names for the halftime show! Mars took to Twitter Monday to remind...
Stock Market Defeat Wipes $114 Billion From The Fortunes of The World’s Richest
A plunge in U.S. stocks Monday cut the fortunes of the world’s 500 richest people by $114 billion as the optimism over tax cuts that fueled January’s gains gave way...
Like true hunters, Foles and the Eagles took Super Bowl LII from Brady and the Patriots!
The Philadelphia Eagles’ flight from last to first ended up with a Lombardi Trophy. In a record-setting shootout between Nick Foles and Tom Brady, the backup...
“Rap Is in a Very Trash Space”, according to Joey Bada$$
Despite JAY-Z and Kendrick Lamar leading this year’s Grammy Awards with the most nominations, some people still aren’t too thrilled about the current state...
What is America’s Relationship Hip Hop and Blackness (i.e. The Grammys
“You Hate Me Don’t You.” During his first solo Grammys performance in 2016, Kendrick Lamar emerged on stage dressed in a prisoner uniform. Hobbling in lockstep...
The Grammys snubbed hip-hop yet again — and it fits a trend of rewarding safe, apolitical pop music
With Bruno Mars’ sweep of the three major Grammy categories on Sunday, including album of the year, the Recording Academy yet again thumbed its nose at great,...
Netflix To Release hip-hop culture with 8-part documentary Rapture
“Hip-hop is about being truthful — you tell the real story.” So begins the teaser trailer for Netflix’s Rapture, a new documentary miniseries seeking to tell...
