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NEW YORK (AP) — Katori Hall plops down in a restaurant booth and promptly orders a Bloody Mary. It’s 1 p.m. The playwright confesses that while her career is going great, her personal life is a bit of a mess. In the space of just three days, she’s lost her transit card, her debit card [...]
(NY Times) – More than 40 years after Tommie Smith and John Carlos ignited the sports world with their black-gloved fists raised on the victory stand at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Carlos says, “I still feel the fire.” Any doubts that time and age have somehow diminished the passion that fueled his track and [...]
(ABC News) – Talk about a mid-week pick-me-up. ESPN The Magazine gave us a sneak peek of their new “Body Issue,” where a roster of star athletes appear nude or semi-nude (with private parts strategically covered). Read More
(Playbill) – Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Alicia Keys, who is making her Broadway debut as a producer of the Lydia R. Diamond play Stick Fly, will also compose the original score to the play. “As someone who walked up and down this boulevard as a young girl, I cannot describe the thrill of having the opportunity [...]
(Billboard.com) – Kanye’s much anticipated Paris Fashion Week spring 2012 show walked the runway Saturday night. Based in American sportswear, the collection was clean, sexy, and stark. Echoes of Helmut Lang and Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci’s (who sat front row at the show) aesthetics reverberated around the runway as austere colors, and aggressive patterns in [...]
(NPR.org) – The American story is filled with hard truths. They’re woven tightly into our history, and they’re impossible to ignore. So how do you teach children the whole American story — from the violence to the racism to the slavery — when so much of it deals with the very things parents try to [...]
(AJC) – Scholars wishing to research the late Tupac Shakur have a trove of artifacts awaiting them at the Atlanta University Center’s Robert W. Woodruff Library. The collection, on loan to the library from the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, includes handwritten lyrics, notebooks full of poetry, fan letters, autographed CDs, artwork, personal correspondence, photographs, press [...]
By Melinda Brocka Bearden was born on this day 100 years ago, September 2, 1911, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Early in his career, his work was influenced by Mexican muralists, including Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. In the 1930s, he studied under German artist George Grosz at the Art Students League in New York. [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The upcoming Broadway production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” has found its Stella. Producers said Tuesday that Daphne Rubin-Vega, who played Mimi in the original cast of “Rent” and Conchita in “Anna in the Tropics,” will play the role of Blanche’s weak sister in Tennessee Williams’ sultry drama. She joins Blair [...]
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