by Good Black News | Aug 10, 2020 | Entertainment, Music |
[Photo: Otis Spann & James Cotton rehearsing in Muddy Waters’ basement, Chicago, IL, 1965. Courtesy Chicago History Museum] Chicago blues began to emerge following the Great Migration of African Americans from the southern U.S. to the industrial cities of...
by Good Black News | Aug 6, 2020 | Entertainment, Music |
by Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Meier.90) Jamaican Independence Day is celebrated every August 6th in honor of the date in 1962 when Jamaica gained its independence from England after more than 300 years of British colonial rule. On the heels of Jamaica’s independence,...
by Good Black News | Aug 5, 2020 | Education, Entertainment, Music |
The Carters are working their empowerment game on all ends. Just days after Beyoncé drops her “Black Is King” visual album on Disney+, Jay Z continues his commitment to Black and Brown people by employing his global entertainment company, Roc Nation, to...
by American Urban Radio Networks | Aug 3, 2020 | Entertainment |
The Beyhive came for Twitter activist Noname, who blasted the portrayal of African culture in a tweet: “we love an african aesthetic draped in capitalism. hope we remember the blk folks on the continent whose daily lives are impacted by u.s imperialism....
by Good Black News | Jul 28, 2020 | Empowerment & Inspirational, Entertainment, News, State & National |
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson; FB: lorilakinhutcherson) Record numbers of Black talent have been nominated by The Television Academy for the 72nd Emmy Awards. According to Variety.com, 34.3% of the nominees in the acting categories alone are Black. There...
by Good Black News | Jul 27, 2020 | Entertainment, Music |
Ska originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to reggae. It combines elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska developed further in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement “Coxsone” Dodd, and...
