FREESTYLE: Stop Complaining, More Campaigning, Says Mistah FAB

[embedplusvideo height=”400″ width=”550″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/19XjmgY” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/XjXvb98uOf0?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=XjXvb98uOf0&width=350&height=300&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep1219″ /] Along with Too-Short and E-40 to Mac Dre and Keak-Da-Sneak, Mistah FAB (born Stanley Cox) has played a...

Gospel Great Dr. Edwin Hawkins Turns 70

Celebrating 70 years of life, multiple Grammy awards winning Dr. Edwin Hawkins was honored for his many innovations in Gospel and R&B music last week at...

Summer ‘Get Fresh Tour’ Comes to an End

Miller Genuine Draft teamed up with COMPLEX Magazine to bring the “Get Fresh Tour” to select cities to pay tribute to the unique style and rhymes...

Obasi Davis, 17, Wins Oakland’s Youth Poet Laureate Competition

The Oakland Public Library has selected 17-year-old Obasi Davis as the new Youth Poet Laureate for the City of Oakland. Davis emerged as the best of...

Playing Loterìa for Better Health in Marin City

Adults and children had a chance to play a card game while learning the principles of healthy living recently when the Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre came...

Downtown Oakland Business Wins ‘Best of Oakland” Award

Underground Treasures has won the 2013 Best of Oakland Award in the Women’s Clothing Stores category by the Oakland Award Program. Underground Treasure offers one-of-a kind...

“Grant Station Project” urges BART Renaming of Fruitvale Station

Written by: Eric K. Arnold, Oakland Local One of the major criticisms applied to rap music these days is that the genre has become too corporate...

West Oakland Rocks ‘Friday Night Live’, Despite Youth Center Hold Up

Despite funding issues forcing the West Oakland Youth Center to remain closed for now, last week staff kicked off Friday Night Live, a new series of...

Univison Television Has Most Viewers; El Mundo to Expand

Univision Television Network, a Spanish based network, was rated number one for the fourth consecutive week. With 1.8 million viewers under the age of 50, Univision...

Bay Area Writer On the Rise

Nancy LaRonda is a Bay Area native and a fiction and poetry writer on the rise. The youngest of six kids, she turned to writing as...

BlackSpit’s Paintings Provoke and Pay Homage

BlackSpit, a native of Washington, D.C, is a graduate of North Carolina A&T where he obtained a degree in Arts and Communications. He now uses his...

Local Filmmakers Explore Meaning of Oakland’s First Fridays

A monthly art walk is probably the last place most people would expect a shooting to occur, but in Oakland last February, that is exactly what...

First Missionary Baptist Choir Hosts Summer Musicale

1.5 Million Celebrate Historic Court Decisions at SF Gay Pride

By Jesse Brooks San Francisco’s 43rd annual Gay Pride celebration drew over 1.5 million people in a jubilant expression of the theme, “Embrace, Encourage, Empower,” as...

Richmond’s Juneteenth Family Day Parade and Festival draws 10,000

African-American Male Couple Are Pride’s Grand Marshals

By Lee Hubbard The grand marshals at this year’s Pride parade will be a couple, Perry Lang and Ken Monteiro, the first African Americans to be...

Rising Star Sydney Nycole Reeves Gives Back to the Bay Area

By Spencer Whitney Sydney Nycole Reeves, a 21-year-old singer and songwriter from Berkeley, has been working hard to build her brand in the Bay Area.Her blend...

Artist Ise Lyfe Turns Abandoned Housing Project into Work of Art

Abandoned, boarded up, and forgotten about housing complexes sit in communities throughout Oakland. Now, one artist has returned to his hometown to transform one dilapidated East...

SXSW 2013 Spring Music & Film Festival

By Shaveela Raniga The South by Southwest (SXSW) 2013 Spring Music & Film Festivals, an “Artistry Battle” that takes place annually in Austin, Texas, this year...

New “InYoFaceFilm” Video Production Features a Light Hearted Comical Music Video