By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Closing out this month of celebrating Black Music, I would like to do some sankofa sharing of some essential sensitivities and thoughts about the meaning…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Closing out this month of celebrating Black Music, I would like to do some sankofa sharing of some essential sensitivities and thoughts about the meaning…
By Hazel Trice Edney — It was Oct. 28, 2001, less than two months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon in Virginia and the World Trade Center…
For the full experience, we encourage you to watch on YouTube and join fellow viewers in the live chat on Sun, Aug 17 at 1 PM ET — drop…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble and Ed Wright founded Black Music Month in June 1979. Also known as African American music Appreciation Month, it was first…
By FirstRepair — Join us for an afternoon of creativity, history, and activism as FirstRepair presents Reparations Are Due!, an exhibit by nationally celebrated artist Tonika Lewis Johnson. This powerful…
By Ashley Sankey, Atlanta History Center — From steaming plates of savory red beans and rice to cake stands overflowing with decadent sweets, foods shape our culinary world and are…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this month of remembering, reading and raising up the work and life of August Wilson (April 27, 1945-October 2, 2005), arguably the most successful…
The world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance. By Rachel Hunter Himes, The Nation — In January 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened an exhibition dedicated to the vibrant history…
Powered by Black World Media Network March 11, 2024 Women’s History Month Edition of Vantage Point On this Women’s History Month edition of Vantage Point, host Dr. Ron Daniels aka…
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson — Now that the Bob Marley biopic One Love has hit the big screen, there’s one question that I have been asked more than any other over the…
After last year’s “Hip-Hop 50” celebrations omitted much of the genre’s activist history, some lifelong fans say rap no longer feels revolutionary. By Timmhotep Aku, Andre Gee, Rolling Stone —…