In a press release earlier this week, the Recording Academy® announced its 2020 Special Merit Awards recipients. The Lifetime Achievement Award honorees include Roberta Flack. The legendary musician and singer will make a rare public appearance to attend the GRAMMY Awards on Sunday, January 26, 2020 at Los Angeles’ STAPLES Center. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “I am […]
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Forever Feline, Forever Fierce (2008) | The New York Times
“Je cherche un billionaire,” Eartha Kitt purred last year from the stage of the Café Carlyle, the chic, intimate club in the Café Carlyle that had been her regular stomping ground for more than a decade. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It was an ideal setting for Ms. Kitt to strut her archetypal show business persona: a glamorous, […]
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When Nat King Cole moved in | Curbed, Los Angeles
The entertainer found his dream home in picturesque Hancock Park—but the neighborhood had a dark side. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In July 1948, singer Nat “King” Cole and his new wife, Maria, were just beginning their lives together. The legendary crooner of standards including “The Christmas Song,” “Nature Boy,” “Mona Lisa,” and “Unforgettable” had spent the last […]
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This Black-Owned Tea Brand Is Headed To New York Stock Exchange | Black Enterprise
Vanessa Braxton, the owner of Black Momma Vodka, originally started out distilling vodka and then moved into the tea industry. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Braxton expanded her empire by opening storefronts. Now, to fuel further expansion, Braxton plans to list her company on the New York Stock Exchange. Braxton plans to take advantage of a provision that […]
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Afrochella Is Ghana’s Ultimate Party With A Purpose | Essence
Cofounder and CEO Abdul Karim Abdullah hopes Year of the Return visitors will feel “a vibration of the country and what it feels like to be with the people.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On January 1, 2019, London-based British-Ghanaian lawyer Yvonne Kramo was definitely feeling some FOMO when she tweeted, “Christmas/ NYE 2018 clearly belonged to Accra. […]
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Help combat racism. This holiday season, give the gift of a black children’s or young adult book | Daily Kos
In a time fraught with Trump- and Republican-fomented racial hate and vituperation, we move into a holiday season celebrated by 90% of the people in this divided nation. Over the years, many readers have asked for my thoughts on what can be done to change and eliminate the racial hate exhibited by a large, and […]
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Fifty Years of Worship at the Church of John Coltrane | The New Yorker
Franzo and Marina King had recently moved from the Midwest to San Francisco when they decided to celebrate their first wedding anniversary by going to hear John Coltrane play at the Jazz Workshop. It was 1965, and the saxophonist was in the midst of a radical transformation, infatuated with a style of playing that was […]
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A Massive New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery | Smithsonian Magazine
The online resource will offer vital details about the toll wrought on the enslaved. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In 1834, a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship transported […]
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Meet the Real Estate Investor Who Owns 18 Properties at 26-Years-Old | Black Enterprise
Homeownership is a secure way to build wealth. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] For many Americans, homeownership is an instrumental way of creating generational wealth for their families. For Jamisa McIvor-Bennett, founder and CEO of Rosebud’s Investments, her introduction to ownership began with a conversation with her grandmother, which ultimately led her to become a real estate investor […]
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The Hip-Hop Museum Is A Reality Thanks To $3.5 Million From New York | Ambrosia for Heads
For years, there has been a drive to make the Universal Hip-Hop Museum a reality. New, the Empire State is providing some significant seven-figure funding to give the Bronx, New York a place where Hip-Hop Heads can celebrate the culture’s origins and heritage. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On Thursday (December 19), New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced […]
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