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It’s Lagos, Nigeria — the late 70s. The hottest musician in Africa is Fela Kuti. His club he calls The Shrine. But it’s no ordinary club; and he’s no ordinary musician. He’s created a new kind of music, Afrobeat — pounding eclectic rhythms (drawn from music traditions around the globe) mixed with incendiary lyrics to [...]
Organized by the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture opens an exhibit of works by Eastern Shore (Maryland) native Bryan Collier, who is known for mixing elements of watercolor and collage. Collier is the author and illustrator of the Coretta Scott King Award-winning [...]
The Pan African Art and Film Festival (PAFF) is considered America’s largest and most prestigious Black arts and film festival, regularly attracting over 200,000 visitors and holding annual screenings of more than 100 films made by and/or about people of African descent from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, the South Pacific, Europe [...]
Credit Wally Gobetz The Duke Ellington Mural is located in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington D.C., within the Mount Vernon Square historic district, an area that has been a hub of African-American cultural life since the late 19th century and the neighborhood that shaped and nurtured him. The Duke grew up just around the corner [...]
Geoffrey & Carmen: Memoir in Four Movements DuSable Museum of African American History Opens: February 9, 2013 The DuSable Museum of African American History in association with the California African American Museum (CAAM) will present an exhibition, Geoffrey and Carmen: A Memoir in Four Movements. The exhibition will include more than 90 paintings, sculptures, photographs, [...]
Set in the smoky halls and underground clubs of the segregated 50s, MEMPHIS, The Musical, is loosely based on the life story of DJ Dewey Phillips who challenged racial barriers by bringing black music to white radio in the segregated 1950s, igniting a cultural revolution. At its core, MEMPHIS is a powerful tale of love [...]
The Flag is Bleeding © Faith Ringgold, American People Series, 1967. Oil on Canvas. Courtesy of Faith Ringgold and ACA Galleries, New York In Faith Ringgold’s words, “American People is about the condition of black and white America and the paradoxes of integration felt by many black Americans.” Her two earliest series, “American People” (1962-1967) [...]
The nation’s largest competitive multicultural film festival, Urbanworld will screen 58 films, including 17 world premieres. Highlights of Urbanworld 2011 include: The world premiere of Diane Paragas’ and Nelson George’s Brooklyn Boheme featuring Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Branford Marsalis, Rosie Perez, and Saul Williams (Opening Night Selection) The Horne Brothers’ The Start of Dreams, a [...]
Step Afrika is the first professional company in the world dedicated to the tradition of stepping……..a competitive dance practiced on college campuses among black fraternities with roots in African dance traditions. The group was founded in 1994 by Brian Williams, a Howard University graduate and Alpha Phi Alpha stepper who was struck by the similarities [...]
Prince of Broadway is the story of Lucky and Levon, two men whose lives converge in the underbelly of New York’s wholesale fashion district. Lucky, an illegal immigrant from Ghana, makes ends meet by soliciting shoppers on the street with knock-off brand merchandise. Levon, an Armenian-Lebanese immigrant, operates an illegal storefront with a concealed back [...]
This summer’s Jazz at the Bowl series continues it run on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 8PM featuring two titans of the blues……Bowl Hall of Famer B.B. King, reigning of blues master for over four decades, as fast and relentless as ever; and, leading off, Buddy Guy, a Chicago blues pioneer who influenced such legends [...]
The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2010 Hollywood Bowl Jazz Series begins Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 8PM with a compelling mix of African beats, dance and jazz. FEATURED ARTISTS: Nigerian Afrobeat superstars Femi Kuti & The Positive Force return with their explosive rhythms and invigorating dancing for a night that celebrates and explores the foundation and [...]
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