"The Message"

Book Review: Ta-Nehisi Coates visits Senegal, South Carolina and the Middle East for ‘The Message’

ROB MERRILL Associated PressOctober 5, 2024

Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose, so naming his latest collection “The Message” is nothing if not on-brand. But what’s the actual message? Consisting of three pieces of non-fiction, the book is part memoir, part travelogue, and part writing primer. It covers his recent trips to Dakar, Senegal; Columbia, South Carolina; and various cities and towns in the Middle East.

Entertainment Music

Hip Hop Goes Home to the Bronx with Star-Studded Ceremony for New Museum

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentMay 28, 2021

“Hip hop is one of those things that really gave my life meaning,” LL Cool J, perhaps the greatest of them all, stated during the ceremony that included Nas, Lil Kim, Fat Joe, Grandmaster Flash, Slick Rick, EMPD, Naughty By Nature, and other superstars and trailblazers.

Music National News

National Museum of African American Music Opens in Nashville

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent March 26, 2021

From rock and roll to blues, jazz, and hip-hop, music is as much the African American way of life as the afro was Black people’s style in the 1970s. Finally honoring that history, the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) has opened in Nashville, Tenn.