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...
Nnedi Okorafor’s ‘Binti’ Is Being Adapted Into An Africanfuturistic Hulu Series
Nnedi Okorafor’s Hugo Award-winning science fiction trilogy Binti will be adapted into a series from Hulu and Media Res. The Binti novella is set against the backdrop of a technologically advanced future. It centers on Binti, an exceptional...
Cannes does ‘right thing’ in appointing Spike Lee to lead
PARIS (AP) — American director Spike Lee will lead the jury of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the first black person to hold the post in the event’s 73-year history. Festival organizers hope Lee will “shake things up”...