Over 60,000 hairstylists, exhibitors, distributors and cosmetology students will again converge on the city of Atlanta as Bronner Bros. rolls out the red carpet on yet another fantastic show. Celebrating its 65th International Hair Show, February 18-21, 2012, at the Georgia World Congress Center, the four-day cosmetology convention offers a unique opportunity for thousands of [...]
Honda’s Battle of the Bands, Atlanta, GA
With more than 50,000 HBCU friends, fans, students and alumni traveling from all around the country , America’s Historically Black Universities and Colleges top marching bands are ready again to throw down the gauntlet at Honda’s Battle of the Bands (HBOB) in Atlanta, Georgia. The 2012 lineup includes: Virginia State University and Winston-Salem State, representing [...]
African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference, Nova Scotia, Canada
The annual conference draws hundreds of dignitaries, scholars and tourism operators from around the world who are focused on preserving and promoting important sites and stories throughout the African diaspora, the movement of Africans and their descendants throughout the world. Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada) will host this year’s African Diaspora Heritage Trail (ADHT) Conference, September [...]
Soul food disappearing in Chicago as Blacks leave
Duct tape covers a large crack in the premier booth at Hard Time Josephine’s Cooking, where waitresses still call you “sweetie” and customers come for the steaming shrimp bisque and homemade peach cobbler with just a hint of cinnamon. Not so long ago, an eyesore like this at one of Chicago’s top soul food restaurants [...]
Black History Month Presidential Proclamation
Presidential Proclamation — National African American History Month A PROCLAMATION The great abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass once told us, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Progress in America has not come easily, but has resulted from the collective efforts of generations. For centuries, African American men and women have persevered to [...]
Spike Lee’s Malcolm X on Blu Ray
Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee’s earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker’s artistic maturity. It seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of America’s fiery civil-rights leader, who is superbly played by Oscar-nominated Denzel [...]
