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Santigold Takes Her New Music on the Road
Four years after her solo debut, experimental R&B rocker Santigold is back with her second studio album, Master of My Make-Believe. With an impressive list of producers, including Q-Tip and Diplo, the Philly-bred singer revives the unorthodox sounds and creative musicality that helped popularize 2008’s Santogold. Lead singles “Big Mouth” and “Disparate Youth” spread across…
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Lauded Sundance-Selected Film Hits Theaters
Andrew Dosunmu’s Restless City has already garnered its fair share of acclaim from a bevy of media outlets, from the Huffington Post to the New York Times, for its stories of love, life and hustle. Each one is conveyed with a level of aesthetic and visual sensibility that displays the Nigerian director’s fashion-photography roots as…
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New Web Series Lets Black Women Talk
The Harlow Project, a website dedicated to women and people of color, is slated to begin its latest, and highly anticipated, series, in(HER)view: A Conversation With Black Women. The eight-part series delves into the lives of five African-American women, including National Black Justice Coalition Communications Director Kimberley McLeod and co-founder of bklyn boihood Genesis Tremaine,…
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Living While Obama: Commander on Campus
President Barack Obama addressed a crowd of students at the University of Iowa in Iowa City on Wednesday, April 25. The event was part of his two-day trip to presidential battleground states — including North Carolina, Colorado and Iowa — to discuss his student-loan reform platform and other issues. In addition to the University of…
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NAACP Hotline Puts the Focus on Voting
NAACP President and CEO Ben Jealous was joined by radio host Tom Joyner, American Urban Radio Networks Program Operations President Jerry Lopes and others on Tuesday to unveil a joint phone initiative to empower potential voters. 1-866-MY-VOTE-1 is a hotline that provides information on voter registration, polling locations and tools to report incidents at polling…
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Vanessa Williams Pens Autobiography
After more than 30 years in the spotlight, former, and first black, Miss America Vanessa Williams has finally released her highly anticipated and long-overdue autobiography, You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-Nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss (and Each Other). From her childhood ambition to attend Yale’s School of…
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An Earth Day Cookout With a Cause
The Nature Conservancy, a U.S.-based environmental organization with global reach, is going for gold this Earth Day as the organization attempts to break the Guinness World Record for the largest outdoor picnic in a 24-hour period. The conservancy will hold picnics across the country and around the globe, including in various African countries, on Sunday,…
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Living While Obama: Touching Down
President Obama greets onlookers at Detroit’s Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on Wednesday, April 18. The president brought his campaign to the Midwest to discuss his economic plan and federal job-training programs in Elyria, Ohio. President Obama also attended several campaign fundraisers in Detroit during his daylong trip.
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Comedy Brings Steve Harvey Book to Theaters
Tim Story’s newest comedic release, Think Like a Man, brings some of black Hollywood’s biggest names to the big screen for a laugh-filled and thrilling film that turns on-screen romantic antics into a how-to for women who want a leg up in the dating game. Think Like a Man brings the Steve Harvey-penned Act Like a…
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Book Sheds Light on the Black Campus Movement
Ibram H. Rogers, assistant professor of history at SUNY College at Oneonta, unravels the pivotal era of racial transformation in higher education in The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972. Rogers details the moments that led to changed ideas of race on America’s college campuses and brought African-American…
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