Jimi Hendrix Honored With NY Street After Five-Decade Fight
Jimi Hendrix in 1970 (Getty Images) New York City’s W. 8th Street has a new name in honor of one of the city’s myriad musical luminaries: Jimi Hendrix Way. An unveiling ceremony was held, June 10. The newly minted street is located in Greenwich...
Damion Hall Joins JaroGO For ‘Perfect Designer’
Damion Hall Signals a New Creative Chapter Damion Hall is preparing a new chapter, and JaroGO Media appears to be part of the movement. The celebrated vocalist, known to R&B fans as a member of the era-defining group Guy, recently took to social...
Issa Rae: Movie academy ‘needs to do better’ on diversity
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Issa Rae’s quick comment after five men were announced as Oscar nominees for best director was spur of the moment, but for many captured the lack of diversity among this year’s nominees. “We were told to...
New book shares early stories written by Zora Neale Hurston
NEW YORK (AP) — Sixty years after her death, the story of Zora Neale Hurston is still not fully told. The fiction writer-anthropologist-folklorist died in a segregated Florida hospital in January 1960, so forgotten and impoverished that her work...