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Marcus Gardley is taking his healing to the stage. In a series of plays, the 36-year-old playwright is exercising his freedom of expression by creating satirical works about black men and prisons. 

    The USPS announced more names in its “celebrity line” of postage stamps. The USPS will release stamps featuring several notable people, including NBA star Wilt Chamberlain, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, and Michael Jackson.

Dreams do come true, and for one dying young girl, her wish of seeing Beyoncé was granted when the singer brought her on stage for a once in a lifetime performance. Earlier this month, Taylon, a terminally ill cancer patient, was invited on stage by the R&B superstar to dance with her in concert. 

By Rashad J. Smith First Lady Michelle Obama was the guest of honor on BET’s 106 & Park Tuesday evening. When introduced by host Bow Wow and Keshia Chante, FLOTUS came out grooving to Beyonce’s “Get Me Bodied” hit song, the same song used for the Lets Move Campaign.

Perhaps the Dave Chappelle “comeback” many of us have been clamoring for is going as swimmingly as planned. At a stop in Hartford, Connecticut last night, Chappelle was heckled before he walked off stage to the boos of some crowd members: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr7eS2NY5t8 Chappelle, who was headlining the Funny or Die Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Tour, […]

A dance group called Dance for Action staged a flashmob outside of Chuck Schumer’s New York office in protest of “Stand Your Ground” laws: “We’ve all been dancing and dancing is the way that we’ve expressed ourselves all these years. We thought we could use dance as a form of protest to apply pressure to the proper people to repeal the law.”

During a pre-inauguration concert in D.C., Fiasco told the crowd that he had not voted for Obama and then proceeded to perform an anti-war song for 40 minutes.

Students at Chicago’s King College Prep High School staged a sit-in on Thursday, demanding that their principal, Shontae Higginbottom resign.

50 students at a high school in Detroit, Michigan were suspended from school after staging a school-wide walk out, and demanding “an education.” The students are fed up with absent teachers, shortages of textbooks, and an administration that simply refuses to hear their grievances or take their education seriously.

By Juahl Ganaway Zeinabu irene Davis’s 1999 film Compensation functions as both an homage to early Black cinema and a speculative intervention into its absences. Compensation refuses to let material survival determine the boundaries of Black film history. The film is told through twin narratives, one set in 1910s Chicago and the other in the […]

By Ugonna-Ora Owoh When Leo, a 28-year-old bisexual man living in Lagos, Nigeria attended a rave for the first time in October 2022, he was in disbelief. “It was my first time seeing so many queer persons in one place,” he explains. “They felt free, nobody was worried about who was watching them or attacking […]

By Prosper Dave Ogechukwu   The first time I heard of Pride Month was from a friend who had relocated to the UK in 2019.  He’d sent me a series of photographs of himself dressed in different outfits and asked which one I preferred.  “What’s the occasion?” I asked.   “It’s Pride Month, baybee,” he replied.  […]