By Vinette K. Pryce Special Assignment Damian Marley previously won two Grammy Best Reggae Album trophies for Half Way Tree and Welcome To Jamrock compilations named from Jamaica’s landmark locations. Continuing what now seems a pattern, Marley’s 18-track album Stony Hill shouts out an area […]
As part of a new strategic plan to prepare for the next generation of Black HIV/AIDS response, the Black AIDS Institute announced several organizational changes, including the retirement of long-time president and CEO Phill Wilson. Wilson launched the Black AIDS Institute in 1999 with a […]
By Kam Williams “Call Me By Your Name” Dateline: Lombardy, 1983. 17 year-old Elio Perlman (Timothee Chalamet) is spending another summer in Northern Italy. Each year, Elio’s dad (Michael Stuhlbarg), an archaeology professor, invites a different doctoral candidate to live with his family while serving […]
By Kam Williams Senior Movie Critic “The Shape of Water,” Guillermo del Toro’s surreal, cross-species love story landed the most Academy Award nominations, including Best Director, Picture and Original Screenplay, as well as trio of acting categories. BEST PICTURE The Shape of Water, ACTOR IN […]
By Audrey J. Bernard The soul of American Culture — The Apollo Theater — turned the 60th Grammy celebration up a notch by hosting a Pre-Grammy Uptown Luncheon on Friday, January 26, 2018 that had some award show attendees riding the famous A Train […]
Dennis Edwards, who joined the Temptations a/k/a “The Tempty Tempts” in 1968 and sang on a string of the group’s hits including “I Can’t Get Next to You,” “Ball of Confusion” and “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” in an initial tenure that stretched to 1977, […]