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Here Comes the Sun
Long before Sun Ra packed his bags and moved to outer space and back, he spent a good part of the 1950s preaching on a street corner on |
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Dig, if You Will, a Picture
It goes without saying that the African Diaspora is pretty far reaching. So while you’re walking the streets of Cincy, or H-Town, give a thought to your relatives |
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Super Heroes
Ok, at first we thought maybe it was some new hi-tech window coating to keep the sun out and the ride fly, but no, turns out UVC stands |
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Lady Sings the Blues
Marissa Arterberry is a young designer we've been keeping an eye on for a while; a fav, as she seems to be making a whole career out of |
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Haven’t You Heard
This goes out to everyone who ever wondered, what the hell happened to BA&VCRS? Imagine our utter delight when we received the first installment of their quarterly e-newsletter |
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On the occasion of his 1967 collection titled Tales, the renaissance man presently known as Amiri Baraka was described as "…at the center of the drama of contemporary |
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Shutter Speeds
We're seeing a tidal wave of new stories coming into the West out of Africa, of both the visual and literary varieties. Namely, we note that a number |
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Chemistry Lab
Imagine a magazine that is not really in an organized format, a publication that is never completely new or old, something that is printed on-the-fly, organized by the |
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Crowned Head
The good die young, but the great are celebrated long after they are gone from this world. In that vein, the Puerto Rico Art Museum and ArtPremium Magazine |
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Anthology of Bling Blinging
A retrospective anthology of hip-hop adornment will hit bookstores 6 November, and the Internet sooner than that. Bling: The Hip Hop Jewelry Book is an illustrious compilation of |
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Write Down
We've noted a trio of art-related opportunities for the wordsmiths among us: Black Arts Quarterly is calling for papers on the subject of "Innovations and Imitations: Exchanges in |
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Science Dropped
So DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid aka this dude we know named Paul sent us a package containing his new CD "In Fine Style," a two-disk Jamaican music |
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Dust Off
Roz Payne has more black historical documents stuffed under her bed than most of us will probably ever lay hands on, much less own. As a founding member |
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Radar Magazine: It's Alive! (Almost)
In a sign that the Yusef Jackson-financed Radar Magazine may stand a chance at stability, the magazine has hired both a publisher (Katherine Rizzuto from Vogue) and an |
