Thinker’s NotebookBy Marlon Rice This past Sunday evening, rapper and singer Lizzo began trending on social media for appearing at a LA Lakers game wearing a black T-shirt dress which was cut out in the back, revealing her thong and fishnet stockings. Doubling down on the risque, during the Lakers cheerleaders’ performance to her song […]readmore
Q&A with Playwright/Actor Ingrid Griffith and Maitefa Angaza for Our Time Press Shirley Chisholm returns to tell her story in outspoken terms in playwright Ingrid Griffith’s new work, Unbossed & Unbowed, on Friday, November 29th. Griffith herself plays the intrepid Caribbean-born politician in a one-woman, audience-engaged production at Bailey’s Café. She tells Our Time Press […]readmore
By Margo McKenzie Sunday, December 1, 3-6 pm marks the world premiere showing of this film at Restoration Plaza, Bed-Stuy, which will be free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. California was the first state to pass the CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair). However, Ms. […]readmore
by Maitefa Angaza In the week since WBAI 99.5FM returned to the air, relieved loyal fans (New York fans) and those across the tri-state area have been repeatedly warned that the battle is not yet over. Judge Melissa Crane of the Manhattan Supreme Court ruled in favor of the station, ordering its Pacifica Foundation parent […]readmore
By Joe Hadsall, JoplinGlobe.com When he made the movie “The Learning Tree,” Gordon Parks probably didn’t intend for it to be relevant 50 years later. “It’s still relevant today,” said Kirk Sharp, executive director of the Gordon Parks Museum on the campus of Fort Scott Community College. “It was important when in came out in […]readmore
Thinker’s Notebook By Marlon Rice Two particular movies came out over the last two weeks that depict fictionalized stories about a pair of Black folks that were both iconic within their own eras and environment. I want you to appreciate that first sentence, as it took me half an hour to find the words […]readmore
Special to Our Time PressBy Herb Boyd Ahmed Abdullah, the music director at Sistas’ Place in Brooklyn, took the stage Saturday evening and announced that it was their 24th season and that Charles Tolliver’s All-Stars were there to celebrate their 50th Anniversary. When Tolliver and his group opened the evening’s first set, an […]readmore
A Ballad for Harlem Conversation: Sculptor Augusta Savage Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan, 6:30-8:30pm, FREE. Dr. Jeffreen M. Hayes and independent curator and writer Niama Sandy will discuss the artistic vision and impact of Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage. Dr. Hayes is the author of Augusta Savage: Renaissance […]readmore
