My first memory of time spent at The Roll Up CLT shakes out to become clearer like a polaroid capture. Through the haze of late summer on southern porches, I recall a curated kinship, community, and a shared love of Black art in close […]
The son of Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., also known as Snoop Dogg, has been named the creative director of a new play-2-earn (P2E) gaming app named Doge Dash. Snoop‘s son, Cordell Broadus, a former UCLA collegiate football player, has been named creative director of Doge Dash. The company brought Broadus […]
*Lifelong friends and now multi-award-winning filmmaking trio Samuel Ladouceur, Director and Producer (A Great Day in Harlem, Power, Boardwalk Empire, True to the Game, Flatbush), Harry Jeudy, Screenwriter and Producer (A Great Day in Harlem, The Sweetest Girl, Flatbush) and Yanatha Desouvre, Screenwriter and Producer (The Sweetest Girl, Flatbush) have […]
*A Brooklyn-based photographer and graphic designer has earned over $200,000 in less than a year selling her art as NFTs, or nonfungible tokens. As reported by CNBC, Elise Swopes “lists her art on NFT marketplaces like SuperRare and Nifty Gateway. Her pieces depict animations of cityscapes that she photographs. She frequently […]
Keke Palmer is one incredible impressionist. The “Hustlers” star busted out her best impersonations of actor Angela Bassett and pop stars Shakira and Cher on Wednesday’s episode of “The Tonight Show.” The US must deprogram its Thanksgiving mindset and honor Native Americans Host Jimmy Fallon was stunned by Palmer’s versions of Shakira’s […]
The Hyundai Motor Company has launched its first Black American marketing campaign, dubbed OKAY Hyundai last week after partnering with a Black-owned marketing agency. Hyundai hired Maryland-based Culture Brands in May in an effort to “be more strategic, targeted and authentic in how we communicate with […]
A filmmaker in Nevada was killed in a random shooting when the suspect, dressed in tactical gear, shot the victim in his car during a shooting spree. According to a news release sent by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD), on November 4 at around 12:37 a.m., […]
UB40 toaster Astro, who helped launch the group in the late ’70s in Birmingham, England, passed after a “short illness.” One of the founders of the veteran British reggae band UB40 has died. Border crossings brace for long lines when travel ban lifts Terence “Astro” Wilson helped launch […]
Pfizer to ask the FDA, international regulators for authorization of use Pfizer Inc. said Friday that its experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% in high-risk adults, as the drugmaker joined the race for an easy-to-use medication to […]
At least eight people died at a popular rapper’s music festival in Texas on Friday night from apparent overcrowding in an event that also saw throngs of fans break through barriers outside and trampling people in the process, prompting speculation and accusations about who was […]
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