The Geffen Playhouse hosted “WHAT IT IZ: The Spoken Wordical” on Dec. 6-7, a groundbreaking hip hop theater production written by formerly incarcerated and system-impacted artists.
UNMET founder Mikayla Rodriguez brings back her visionary arts exhibition for a second year,
On Saturday, December 10, Post & Beam, a restaurant located by the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, hosted a brunch and book signing with activist, writer, poet, and public speaker, Kevin Powell for his new book, “Grocery Shopping with My Mother.”
Poets from some of L.A.’s most underserved, yet resilient neighborhoods came together for a free community event.
This year’s Black History Month theme, “Black Health and Wellness,” opens space for us to call into focus our self-determined and self-sustaining ways of knowing, working and struggling to achieve, protect, promote and sustain our health, health care and healing in a society which is the source of so much of our preventable sickness, needless suffering, and underserved deaths. And thus arises the undeniable need for righteous and relentless struggle, not only to achieve justice and end oppression, but also to achieve a comprehensive radical racial healing.
To much of the world the late Toni Morrison was a novelist, celebrated for such classics as “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon” and “The Bluest Eye.”
Fresh off her nationally acclaimed poetry reading at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Los Angeles native Amanda Gorman will be presenting her work on another massive stage — the Super Bowl,
It all happened right before our very eyes allow me to summarize A lot has already taken place one can never erase Once the pandemic hit creating fear and devastation Wreaking havoc across the nation No business as usual all of a sudden the earth stood still Everything’s happens for a reason according to God’s perfect will Plagued by social, economical, and political division God is calling us into account requires total submission Whenever controversy erupts we must never give up How did we get here what started this mess a midst this virus and civil unrest The world’s clearly
Görg says she chose the controversial topic because the “N” word has been given so much powe
“Feeling is not a female thing, not a male thing, it’s a human thing,” says NFL player Ryan K. Russell.
On this day June 27, 1872, literary giant Paul Laurence Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio. Brought to you by the Black365 Calendar. Find out more at www.Black365.US.
Senior linebacker Nygel Lewis flaunts a coveted 4.2 GPA.
Executive produced by author, entrepreneur and social activist Russell Simmons, ‘Romeo is Bleeding’ is a documentary detailing the history of crime and separation among “turfs” in Richmond, CA. The film tracks the life of a drug-dealing rebel turned poet named Donte Clark, who through his artistic expression, manages to transform the lives of youth in his community. Watch as we interview members of the cast and crew.
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New Earth is helping incarcerated teens transition back into their community.
The film is a tribute to the staggering contribution of one of America’s greatest men of letters.