When you think of techno music you probably think of crowds of young mostly-white partygoers, carefree and intoxicated on feelings of love due to various of substances as they dance around to some obscure European DJ in a converted warehouse. Techno has become in many...
WHAT IS THE PAN-AFRICAN WEEKEND? July 18-21, 2019 Celebrating Black Women, Business and Careers, Black Youth and Produced by Face2Face-Africa. Held in New York City, the Pan-African Weekend is a prestigious annual event that celebrates, connects, and empowers the...
To a man who single-handedly took on racial stereotypes waged against all Black “boyz in the ‘hood,” structured an idea about what it means to kill one another and to ‘man up’ and become a REAL Black man in America (“Baby...
Born on February 23, 1942, as Donald LEE, Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti is an African-American poet, author, and founder of Third World Press, the country’s oldest black-owned independent publishing house. Early Life and Education Haki Madhubuti’s childhood was far from...
This is a biography of Maya Angelou poet, author, and civil rights activist among many other things. Ms. Angelou’s inspiring life moves from a troubled childhood to become one of the most important icons in the literary world and in global human rights movements....
This biography highlights the life of Nikki Giovanni and her accomplishments. Nikki was born in the city of Knoxville, Tennessee. She gives hope and inspires through her literary works. She writes on the plight of African-Americans from the 1960s to today. Some of her...
Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents were James Hughes and Carrie Langston Hughes. Langston’s mother was a teacher and his father a lawyer and wealthy landowner. Langston Hughes was an African-American male whose...
We knew that following the success of the box office hit, Get Out, we’d see more from comedian-turned-director Jordan Peele. Carving an entirely new path in filmmaking adjoining art and social awareness, he’s back to produce a series called...
