Kandace Springs‘ third record is a source of familiarity in uncertain times. Titled The Women Who Raised me, it’s full of beloved and recognizable songs associated with jazz artists who inspired and influenced Springs as an artist: Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Lauryn Hill and Norah Jones, among many others. But the album is not only a tribute […]
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We Don’t Need To Destroy Gayle King To Preserve Kobe Bryant’s Legacy | Essence
The treatment of Gayle King over the last 48 hours is a case study in the inability to critique Black women without tearing them down in the process. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In the emotional days following the death of Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna in a helicopter crash, Black people, in our shock and […]
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Music Sermon: Hip-Hop Vs. The Grammys: 30 Years of Fighting The Power | Vibe
Rap’s relationship with the Grammys started with a boycott when the Best Rap Song category was introduced 30 years ago, and it’s been rocky ever since. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Hip-hop and the Grammys have beef. The genre has always been marginalized by the Recording Academy, even as it grew into a superpower. This year, Kendrick Lamar, […]
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‘Cane River’: A Forgotten Black Director’s Only Film Resurfaces After Being Lost for 40 years | IndieWire
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired the restored film for a theatrical run to begin in February. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Debuting in 1982, “Cane River” was an independent-film curio: a race and colorism-themed love story with an all-black cast, written and directed by a black filmmaker, financed by wealthy black backers. The filmmaker’s name was Horace B. Jenkins, […]
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“Blind Tom,” born a slave, at the age of 10 became the highest paid pianist of the 19th century | The Vintage News
Tijana Radeska, The Vintage News “Blind Tom” was a musical prodigy who was born in slavery in 1850, in the state of Georgia. He was a contemporary virtuoso of Liszt and Rubinstein, but one who seemed unaware of his skin color, his fame, or his success. Blind Tom was aware only of the sounds and […]
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Regina King on fighting white supremacists in Watchmen: ‘My community is living this story’ | The Guardian
The Oscar-winner is playing a cape-swishing superhero in HBO’s revamp of the epic comic book. She talks wage gaps, wardrobe woes and her dreams of becoming a dentist. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Regina King had a hard time convincing some of her friends about Watchmen, her new HBO series inspired by the DC comic book of the […]
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The quiet brilliance of Kenan Thompson | The Washington Post
How SNL’s longest-tenured cast member went from child star to the sketch show’s indispensable steady hand. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] NEW YORK — Kenan Thompson is a sketch-comedy savant. He’s seen how the tiniest diversion — uttering an errant word, glancing in the wrong direction, taking a half-second too long to rip off tearaway clothes — can […]
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Remembering Curtis Mayfield Today on the 20th Anniversary of His Passing (December 26, 1999) | Albumism
Please join the Albumism team in celebrating Curtis Mayfield’s musical legacy and revisit audio & video highlights from his career below! [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Biography: Perhaps because he didn’t cross over to the pop audience as heavily as Motown’s stars, it may be that the scope of Curtis Mayfield’s talents and contributions have yet to be […]
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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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