Nearly a year before his performance on March first, months before the arena would open…
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“I went back before loss, before grief because I wanted to write an album that was not immersed only in pain but that could hold both sides evenly and glorify…
In a time of incredible unrest, a civil rights movement and racial awakening like America has never seen before, it is important to acknowledge and celebrate Black excellence and Black joy. This…
Trans lives (primarily Black trans lives) are taken every year and queer people are attacked and beaten in public every year, simply for being true to who they are. So, although going…
Eleven & Jason D (aka E&J) featuring Clev Speech & P Dirt! This is the posse cut off their new album “Strike Back” available in late March. Stay tuned! They’re dropping a…
“If you can talk, you can sing and if you can walk, you can dance.” – Zimbabwean proverb Abraham Dumisani Maraire and Lora (Sukutai) Chiorah-Dye, are two African musicians who introduced Zimbabwean…
“Comedy Matters Because It Brings People Together” For the last seven years the Museum of Pop Culture or MoPOP has organized an event called, Through The Eyes of Art during Black History…
“How you getting greater when you’re afraid of your neighbor?” – Sol “Penny is a composition meant to invoke reflection among its audience—inquiring: what is the value of one’s ‘thoughts’ to you?…
When I think of Hip Hop, environmental activism isn’t typically the first thing that comes to mind, until I came across Def-i years ago. Def-i made headlines when he helped to raise…
An eight-year-old little girl sits wide eyed, frightened and unable to sleep as the echo of the bombs decimating nearby buildings reverberate into her very bones. She sits with her family in…
In 2012, the same year cannabis was legalized in Washington, almost fifty percent of all drug arrests were for marijuana. People of color (POC), namely black and latinxs folks, were (and still…
July of 2014 Esthetic Evolution, a festival that had an incredible impact on the art and music communities in Idaho, called it quits after 10 years. For some it had been a…
I have to ask myself, “Where do we start with JNR Williams?” I sat down with my headphones on my couch and submerged myself. From the start, I love JNR Williams vocals. He…
