Clarence Avant, lovingly known as “The Black Godfather,” was called home to rest on August 13, at the age of 92. One of Black music’s most extraordinary executives, Avant was renowned for his business acumen, industry expertise, philanthropist efforts and social justice advocacy.
Central City Productions launches Stellar Network TV with the premiere of This Years’ Black Music Honors, which Pays Tribute to the Remarkable Legacy of Black Musicians Whose Enduring Greatness Has Left an Indelible Mark on the World.
Performing together as adolescence, The New Respects is a Nashville-based soul/pop/rock band set to uplift audiences with their throwback sound and catchy hooks.
Just when you thought Black Movie Soundtrack could not get any better, it did. The 4th edition soared on Wednesday at the Hollywood Bowl, exceeding expectations.
Soul Source LA is an event curated by Eric Carter Chu, better known in the DJ realm as “its.blksoap.” The inspiration for Soul Source LA is to create a safe space that promotes freedom and self expression for dancers and deejays.
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Music video by Marvin Gaye performing Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler). (C) 1971 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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On this day in 1958, Little Girl Blue, the debut album by jazz singer and songwriter Nina Simone was released.
On this day May 24, 1944, songstress, Patricia Louise Holte aka Patti Labelle, was born in Philadelphia, PA. Brought to you by the Black365 Calendar. Find out more at www.Black365.US
Singer and “R&B Divas” star Chanté Moore is slated to perform on the Hyundai Soundstage for the 13th annual Taste of Soul. Hyundai recently announced that renowned journalist Roland Martin will be the host with Brian “DJ B-Hen” Henry and rap icon Kurtis Blow as the talent featured on the stage.
Whatever others may say in clearly deserved praise and homage to Aretha Franklin, it is vitally important that we, as persons and a people, speak our own special cultural truth about her and make our own unique assessment of her music, life, service and meaning to us. Here I mean not letting others’ descriptions of her and her music serve as an orientation and framework for our own praise and proper due, but rather reaching inside ourselves and understanding and speaking of her in a multiplicity of meaningful and praise-worthy ways drawn and distilled from the depths of our own hearts and our own culture.
Hip-hop pioneer MC Lyte is the national spokesperson for the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) Discover The Unexpected (DTU) Journalism Fellowship program.
Recording artists and actors collide to celebrate a year in Black entertainment.
Host: Brittany K. Jackson
The BET Experience provided a wide range of hip-hop sound in their first concert of the weekend.