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Monday, January 27, 2014 at 1:14PM
Congratulations goes out to Lalah Hathaway for
winning a Grammy last night for her collaboration
with Snarky Puppy. Well deserved win. Here’s the
tune above.
Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 11:43PM
Not many words needed to describe this moment…
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 12:58PM
The actress from ‘12 Years A Slave’ sat down with Vogue Magazine a while back
to speak about her earlier years in the United States.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 12:53PM
The Egyptian writer & activist Mona Eltahawy gives a riveting talk about permanance and loss and sexual violence in this TED Talk held earlier this year.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 12:36PM
Winner of NBC’s ‘The Voice’, Jamaica’s own Tessanne Chin sits down with Michael Slezak for a great interview about her experience.
Friday, December 20, 2013 at 12:08PM The Grammy Award winning vocalist has created
this song & video to decry the conditions and the
existence of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba. She explained to NPR in a recent talk,
“We really do have the power as a people. Part of
the message of the song is, ‘This is not our America.
We are America. I am America. Esperanza Spalding is
America. And all the people in this video are America,
and no, we don’t condone this behavior, and we don’t
want it anymore.”
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 3:14PM
Riveting speech by the 16 year old young
woman from Pakistan who survived being
shot by the Taliban just for exercising her
right to education.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 3:00PM 
No doubt that with the recent release of the
superstar singer Beyonce’s latest self-titled
album, long-subdued debates have risen up.
In particular, the track ‘Flawless’ that samples
a recent TED talk by the Orange Prize-winning
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Here’s the talk in its entirety for you.
Friday, December 13, 2013 at 11:12AM
Props to Style Show for the report that Mz.Badu is
the new face representing fashion giant Givenchy’s
Spring/Summer 2014 line.
Friday, December 13, 2013 at 11:06AM
“The End of eating Everything” is an excerpt of artist Wangechi Mutu’s
first animated video, created in collaboration with recording artist
Santigold and co-released by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke
University and MOCAtv on YouTube.
