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Black Arts Organizations & End-of-Year Giving

...uminal Theater http://www.luminaltheater.org/support.html National Black Theatre http://www.nationalblacktheatre.org/donate Classical Theatre of Harlem https://cthnyc.kindful.com/ The New Black Fest http://www.thenewblackfest.org/donations Studio Museum Harlem https://www.studiomuseum.org/join–give...
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VIDEO: Weeksville on TheRoot.com

...is doesn’t solve our problems, but it gives us room to breathe and plan for how to come out of this situation as a stronger, more stable institution. That’s the next thing we have to work on. More to come. In the meantime, enjoy the video! Shout outs to TheRoot.com, especially producer and editor Peter Rickards and cinematographer Santiago Garcia for the incredible video...
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Now on The Huffington Post.com: Dash’s Blakroc disses black rock

...three years championing on my blog. The conflation of the two is offensive. There’s too much history there. It’s like he’s acknowledging the existence of black rock with his middle finger. Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-fields/dashs-blakroc-disses-blac_b_326420.html Read the full article here. If you’re inclined to share your thoughts on this subject, please do so over at the HuffPo....
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Digital Music Forum: Michael Robertson founder of MP3.com

...usic is passive How do I get it to all of my devices Amazon music was the nail in the coffin for DRM music from Best Buy or Napster.com Lockersync: Autosyncing.  Anytime you download a song, it gets zapped to your locker.  His device is connected to that locker. Demos his autoplay.  With the creation of playmix, you can create a radio type experience.  Now, is he building a business on the backs of the intellectual property of others? Here’s how h...
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Now On Forbes.com: Culture As Competitive Advantage

...lse is transmitted or carried on.” Culture is the medium through which all communications travels, and it’s what complicates marketers’ efforts. Just as water bends light, culture changes—sometimes slightly, sometimes to a great degree—the direction, impact and meaning of communication. The message can vary greatly depending on who’s sending and who’s receiving. That’s why slang in the wrong hands is cringe-worthy: Even though all of the words may...
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Now on TheRoot.com: "Black Rock Rolls On"

...rock favorites Pillow Theory, London-born, day-glo electro artist Ebony Bones, and innovative DJ and sound sculptor CX Kidtronik, but the main draw is the Black Rock Coalition’s flagship band, Living Colour. It’s a meeting of the trailblazers and the new jacks, all coming together under the flag of black rock. And it’s all happening at a time when black rock is gaining momentum as a cultural force. Check out the full article on TheRoot.com. The p...
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Now on TheRoot.com: Rock is Black Music, Too!

...l enjoys a fringe following. But it doesn’t fit this new age. R&B is formulaic and predictable. And hip-hop? In its commercial form—the stuff that hammers us from radio and video outlets—has painted itself and its fans into a corner, boxed in on all sides by what Brown professor Tricia Rose calls the pimp-gangsta-ho triumvirate. Essentially, we’ve let a small group of hip-hop “artists” of limited experiences, education and vision set our cultural...
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Now on TheRoot.com: Loud and In Living Colour

...r label executive Lisa Cortes, who is also the executive producer of the upcoming film Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire “And we need to see possibility that is successful. Possibility that has both indie cred, commercial success and has been internationally accepted. Their entrée into all of those places is so important. They’ve made a really important contribution by speaking to the realization of imagination and possibility.” Read t...
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Now on HuffingtonPost.com: "Window Seat" or Much Badu About Nothing

...'re not getting me to walk naked down anybody's street. But then again, I don't have a new album to sell. We are asked to take this video very seriously. But what's it really about? Is it about freedom of expression? Stripping away pretense? A wake-up call for each of us to be ourselves? Fine. But why the conflation with Kennedy? Because Erykah sees herself on that level. JFK. Badu. Y'all get the connection, right? I don't....
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Time.com’s 50 Best Web sites

...y.  What I mean is that (almost) everyone uses Google, so we think about it as much as we think about how cool it is that light comes on when you flick the switch. So, if I’m not on most of these sites, where am I, you ask?  Here’s my (partial) list: The Daily Swarm (great music news aggregator, so it’s my homepage) Google (Gmail, Reader, Feedburner, Analytics) Marketing Pop Culture (via the Typepad platform) Bold As Love (my other blog on Black r...
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Remembering Michael K. Williams (1966-2021)

...ville was just one of many causes and organizations he championed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1iYxJPU_CU The pandemic has made this a season of loss. Michael’s passing feels all the more sharp, not only because I knew him, but because he joins a growing list of Black men around my age who’ve left us in the prime of their lives recently: Rappers DMX, Shock-G of Digital Underground, Biz Markie and Zumbi of Zion-I; photographer Chi Modu, music...
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Research Launching: What’s the Value of Culture To A Marketer?

...f five (5) minutes to complete. You can click here to get started: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CIMO14 If you’re on the frontlines of marketing’s evolution—at an agency, a client-side marketer, consultancy, or retailer, please take the survey by clicking on this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CIMO14 Your answers will be completely anonymous (unless you want to sign up for phone interviews in phase 2, or you want to receive an executive summ...