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Beyoncé releases seventh album, ‘Renaissance’

Beyoncé performs at San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy on July 18, 2016 as part of The Formation World Tour. Beyoncé's long-awaited and highly anticipated seventh studio album, Renaissance, is now available for the world to hear. The 16-song LP marks her first solo album in 6 years, following the pivotal visual album Lemonade. Critics, including NPR Music's Sidney Madden and Ann Powers, have said of previews that Renaissance signifies a musical evolution for the global superstar. Renaissance includes guest […]

todayJuly 29, 2022

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A project named for ‘Peanuts’ character Franklin aims to boost Black animators

In 1968, Charles M. Schulz introduced the first Black character to his famous comic strip; Franklin joined Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang. Over the years, the low-key, friendly character was an inspiration to generations of Peanuts fans. Now, more than half a century later, Peanuts Worldwide has created The Armstrong Project in his honor to support up-and-coming Black writers, animators and cartoonists. The new initiative was introduced at a pop-up exhibition at Comic-Con in San […]

todayJuly 28, 2022

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Yes, We’re Still Crying Over The Wakanda Forever Trailer

Lupita Nyong’O as Nakia in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. © 2022 MARVEL. The trailer for Wakanda Forever, the sequel to Marvel’s critically-acclaimed, fan-favorite film Black Panther, is finally here and its drop,  brought with it a slew of emotions from fans. I, for one, watched the trailer twice; once with my sisters in emotional silence and then for a second time by myself, and was rendered speechless except for one word that kept […]

todayJuly 28, 2022

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Brilliant Voices Teaches Milwaukee Youth How to Start Podcasts for Free

Mwanje Thompson. (Picture by Liyah Sumner/Carvd N Stone) Brilliant Voices is helping Milwaukee Black and Brown youth create their own media companies through podcasting. The free audio program started in 2021 is the social arm of Audio Moguls Media, originally named Optimistic Soundz. Audio Moguls Media is an audio content and tech company developing an ecosystem of audio intellectual property where every song, podcast, and audio becomes a digital asset.Brilliant Voices teaches students how to create, record, distribute and monetize […]

todayJuly 27, 2022

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Yup, we’re spoiling ‘Nope’

Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea in Jordan Peele's latest film, NOPE. The film Nope stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as siblings and horse wranglers living in a small California town where things get weird, people disappear, and a threat must be stopped. Jordan Peele wrote and directed the film, so there are bound to be some surprises. So we're hitching a ride on horseback into spoiler territory. Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

todayJuly 27, 2022

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A new dictionary will document the lexicon of African American English

The dictionary aims to be the first to complete the task at this magnitude. Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English. "Finally we will have a space that recognizes our language in a way that encompasses all the people within African American language communities," said Sonja Lanehart, a linguistics professor at the University of Arizona […]

todayJuly 27, 2022

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‘Castor and Patience’ opera explores systematic barriers to Black land ownership

Castor (Reginald Smith Jr.) and Patience (Talise Trevigne) toast to their reunion before discussion what motivates Castor's visit to the sea island homestead. Cincinnati — A new opera, Castor and Patience, takes on the pervasive barriers to land ownership for Black Americans. With a libretto by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith and a score by composer Gregory Spears, the opera tells the story of two cousins' struggles in owning and keeping property long held by […]

todayJuly 27, 2022

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The power of Beyoncé is about to change music… again

Beyoncé's long-awaited seventh solo album, Act I Renaissance, is due out Friday, July 29. This is not a drill! Beyoncé is releasing her seventh solo studio album, titled Act I Renaissance, on Friday, July 29. It marks Bey's first solo album in six years, following her momentous visual album Lemonade. "BREAK MY SOUL," the lead single off the forthcoming LP, is doused in dance music influences and samples the 1990 diva house hit "Show Me Love" by Robin S., causing […]

todayJuly 27, 2022

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Cat Burns Is TikTok’s Latest Obsession: “As A Black, Queer Person, Being Heard Means Everything”

I knew Cat Burns’ music before I knew Cat Burns. The melodic sounds of Go — the South London songwriter’s first single to top the official charts  — have followed me on TikTok, in the car, and in the cute coffee shops where I go to work. Without thinking, I would find myself singing the lyrics, “So don’t call this number anymore, cause I won’t be there for you like I was before,” almost as if they were embedded into my […]

todayJuly 26, 2022

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