Barbados born, Berklee School of Music-educated saxman Elan Trotman takes his jazz performances to another level of expectation. His “all in” attitude gives listeners a place in the melodies…
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“Queen of Katwe” will open for screening at The Newark Black Film Festival
by Debert Cookby Debert Cook“Queen of Katwe” will open for screening at The Newark Black Film Festival being held at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey. Since its inception in 1974, the Newark Black…
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The evening marked the Brooklyn premier of “The Cornel West Concerto”. The concerto, commissioned and premiered by the Apollo Theatre last year, is a collaboration between five-time GRAMMY -winner Arturo O’Farrill…
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“Walking While Black” The Movie Examines Racial Profiling
by Debert Cookby Debert CookA.J. Ali has seen and done a lot in his career. As a golf and wellness writer, he spent the summer of 2014 golfing in all 50 states from Florida to…
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(By O.A. Scott) Whatever you think about the past and future of what used to be called “race relations” — white supremacy and the resistance to it, in plainer…
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“Mudbound” with Mary J. Blige Makes World Premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
by Debert Cookby Debert Cook“Mudbound” made its World Premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival this Janary, it is Dee Rees’ latest directorial effort. A big-screen adaptation of Hillary Jordan’s 2009 novel of the…
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Exploring the Reigning Career of Frank Ocean, as Writer Tracy Mitchell Now Explains:
by Debert Cookby Debert CookThe genre rhythm and blues has always been the most artistic and effective genre in music but when it comes to the shift it has taken this past decade there…
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Kendrick Lamar, a Spokesperson for Impaired Black Communities Through Soulful Rap Music This rap superstar has a more influential soulful sound than nowadays soul artists. M.A.A.D City, To Pimp a…
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A musical genius, a cultural icon, a seemingly ageless and endlessly curious and challenging and infuriating and inspiring man whose brilliance crossed generations, is dead at 57. The likes of…
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Tossing Stones: Atlanta-based play pulls you into a world of real drama
by Debert Cookby Debert CookPeek into the lives of David and Landry Robinson, as their world of marital bliss is ravaged by the beast of infidelity—a lurid situation that no marriage ever wants to encounter.…
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Face the boy king, King Tutankhamun, and behold the massive treasures of his tomb. Regal and surrounded by all the best that Egypt had to offer his short life, of…
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In the midst of slot machines, blackjack tables, roulette and high rollers, you’ll hit the jackpot if you plan to go see Dirk Arthur’s Wild Magic show at the Westgate…