By Maya Chung, NBC News “Bad Hair Does Not Exist!” is a new bilingual book that encourages young Black, Afro-Latina, and multi-racial girls to...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced that Academy Award–winning actor Morgan Freeman will be honored at the 43rd Annual Chaplin Award Gala held at...
Your neighbors said they’d keep an eye on your house for you this summer. They’d get the mail in, and grab the newspaper while you...
By Chanelle Bell Daniel Alexander Jones, a professor at Fordham University and a well known artist, is directing the August Wilson play “Gem of the...
The skeletons in your closet don’t rattle around much anymore. Most of your family has long forgotten the secrets those skeletons represented, while the ones...
You’d do almost anything for your best friend. You’d take a bullet, take her in, or take her anywhere she needed to go. You keep...
By Yara Simón, Remezcla.com The late Celia Cruz will now be honored with a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. Cruz – who perhaps has...
Ethan Michaeli, who was once a reporter for The Chicago Defender in the 1990s, has written a new book “The Defender: How The Legendary Black Newspaper...
The San Leandro Public Library is hosting a Murder Most Foul forum on Saturday, Jan 16, 2 p.m., at the Main Library at 300 Estudillo Ave.
Leaders come from surprising places. The quiet girl that sits the next row over may know how to inspire people. The know-it-all in your class...
By Public Affairs, UC Berkeley News In a first, a graphic novelist has been picked as the new national ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and...
By Donna Raminez Award-winning alternative Creole artist and accordionist Andre Thierry performed at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley Dec. 29. Thierry and his...
By Sally Douglas Arce It’s remarkable yet true. For 50 years, the Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra (BCCO) has provided free concerts. Eugene Jones,...
Salty or sweet? This time of year, it barely matters; you’ve had your hands in bowlfuls of both in the past few weeks. How could...
By Martin Johnson, The Root The past always informs the future, and never more so these days than in “Finding Your Roots,” the PBS program...
By Brennan Williams, Huffington Post After numerous rumors surrounding the director of Marvel’s forthcoming flick “Black Panther” — including Ava DuVernay forgoing the opportunity —...
You woke up this morning with a craving. So is breakfast time too early to think about dinner? Is it bad to want to sneak...
By Wanda Sabir Power couple, Demetrius “Chi-Raq” Dupree (Nick Cannon) and Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris) have all any young couple could want, fame and power, the...
By Gus Newport Part I-The Last Days of Malcolm X Shareef Nasir, a young African American man born and raised in the Bay Area...
Por Tambay A. Obenson, Shadow and Act The George Lucas Family Foundation ha anunciado una dotación de $10 millones que apoyará el reclutamiento de talento...
During their debut at the Sweet Chariot – a nightclub in Manhattan, allegedly run by the Mafia, that presented African American gospel music to largely...
The smooth velvety voices of The Whispers will come back to the Bay Area Nov. 28 at Oakland’s Paramount Theater. Presented by Bay Area Productions,...
JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr., Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — R&B singer Bobby Brown said Monday that his daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was “an angel” and that the...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (The Washington Post) — Gospel singer Richard Smallwood has just deplaned from the US Airways first-class cabin. He stops to take a few quick photographs...
Outspoken Comedian Comes to D.C. With Dick Gregory By Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Paul Mooney has never been one...
