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A Kenyan singer has officially hit the airwaves with one of the best covers yet of Adele’s “Hello.”

Check out a phenomenal performance from Adele; 19’s gorgeous “Hometown Glory” LIVE! According to Spin Magazine, Adele recently underwent laser surgery on the injured vocal chords that forced her to cancel her remaining 2011 tour dates last month. She is expected to make a full recovery! Read more at BYP.com

BYP MORNING NEWSLASH MUSIC EDITION October 05, 2011   In an interview with XXLmag.com, Nas confirms that the late-great Amy Winehouse’s classic “Me and Mr. Jones” was about him. “’I don’t really remember if Salaam, who was really close to her, who introduced us, if he told me about it or not,’ Nas told XXL. […]

Adele’s “Someone Like You” video is completely unoriginal and beyond formulaic. And I love it. So get out your tissues, and get ready to feel like shit. This is a celebration of the stark, intimate, sometimes black-and-white, heartbreaking, female songwriter-songwriter-driven music video. Enjoy…?

BYP MORNING NEWSFLASH September 30, 2011   When not inundating America with over-the-top, exploitative reality television, VH1 finds the time to do some amazing shit. Case in point: getting the original members of A Tribe Called Quest together for their first joint interview since 1998. The event commemorates the 20th anniversary of the release of […]

An outstanding second album reflects an unprecedented growth, depth and creativity that takes the artist’s music in a direction that feels both reassuringly natural yet thrillingly unexpected. Like Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black, D’Angelo’s Voodoo, and Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun, Adele has most certainly achieved this near impossible balancing act with her sophomore album, 21.

by Indigo In the final weeks of 2019, pop culture analysts (and regular enthusiasts like myself) have taken to the variety of digital mediums available, and some even to the rooftops of their homes, to tell anyone who will listen that 2019 was the year of Lizzo.  After the infamous “HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A […]

by Cosima Smith  Television, movies, and literary representations all serve to enforce, perpetuate, and reinforce the lived-realities of their subjects and audience. They also proliferate the ideas of their creators by portraying a set of characters who, ideally, undergo hardships and growth, experience love and loss, and who (work to) internalize a great deal of […]

by Antoinette Gregg *This essay contains spoilers for A Wrinkle In Time* Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Madeleine L’engle’s novel is a stunning cinematic experience. It’s a classic coming-of-age tale wrapped up in fantasy with moral underpinnings, and it is ultimately about believing in yourself and showing love as often as you can. This is a […]

Nearing the end of each year, I like to compile a list of upcoming films that look intriguing to me or that I have been anticipating for months, or even years. This year, I tailored my list to be extensive and hella Black, just for y’all. Each of these feature a predominantly Black cast, Black […]

I write for The Black Youth Project blog about twice a week. I love news media and think a free and fair press is essential to holding centers of power accountable. But it seems like, as of late, the only center of power dominating the press cycle is dumpster fire of a president Donald Trump. […]

As they are every year, the Grammys were full of more than a dozen moments worth focusing on. However, unlike every year, 2017’s Grammys saw a handful of moments that reached peak Blackness and had us all standing and yelling at our televisions and laptops.