Monday morning I received a text telling me to be careful. Something about bad energy. I made a mental note to ask if another planet was in retrograde for the fifty-eleventh time. But I was quickly snapped out of my levity when I read the...
I’m sure, Kevin Durant, that your teammates will give you a tour of The Town (that’s what we affectionately call it). The Town is very different from The City, aka San Francisco, where you may end up playing in the near future....
Different people know Chinaka Hodge for different reasons. There are the Def Poetry fans that remember the first time the Oakland native was welcomed to the mic and those that have followed her since her time as a teen with groundbreaking literary organization, Youth Speaks....
The second floor of San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) is lined with beautiful photos of Black men in suits. The men look like they’ve contemplated every detail of their well-fitting ensembles. The colors, accents and textures are all intentional. Urban landscapes from New...
[INTERVIEW] The poet-activist-memoirist uses her latest one-woman show to deal with in vitro fertilization and her newfound motherhood....
Leon Bridges was supposed to be a dancer. The Grammy-nominated retro-soul singer was studying ballet, jazz, African and modern dance when he first started jamming with a follow schoolmate. One day someone heard them and told Bridges he sounded pretty good. That’s when there was...
Singer Jamila Woods is a force. And she is using her power to make sure the messages in her music are loud and clear. The lyrics to her song “blk girl soldier,” are undeniably potent: “We go missing by the hundreds/Ain’t nobody checking for us…....
Colorful vibrators with USB chargers, Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, old-school records, and vintage issues of Playboy are just a few of the items you can find at Feelmore, a sex-positive erotic shop based in Oakland, California that's owned and operated by Nenna Joiner. ...
Columbia Nights has been playing together for nearly nine years, though the name is only about five years old. In an earlier iteration of the group, Jason Edwards, John E. Daise and Hayling Price went by Like Mindz. At the time the University of Pennsylvania...
This past month marked the release of Muhsinah’s third EP this year. Yes, you read that right, she’s already released three projects in 2016 and we can expect nine more. ...