Social media erupted over a video that showed a group of white girls saying the n-word while singing along to “Gold Digger,” the hit by hip-hop mogul Kanye…
Photo: ‘I arrived at the beginning of the real Jamaican music’ … Jimmy Cliff photographed in Miami, August 2021. Photograph: Vision Addict Jamaican Independence Day marks more than 60…
Photo: Artifacts seized by the U.S. government and returned to Iraq are displayed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq August 3, 2021. REUTERS/Saba Kareem U.S….
30 July 2021 | Tony Bravo | San Francisco Chronicle The ongoing movement to reconsider, and sometimes remove, some public monuments and artworks has taken aim at what…
Photo: Jerry Garcia circa 1976 – Youtube Screenshot Mr Garcia talks about life, music, “Row Jimmy Row” and the then-current Dead album: I think Blues For Allah was…
Photo: Ulchi girl – Amur river, Far East of Siberia, Russian Federation In agreement with the United Nations Department of Global Communication, IPS is pleased to share with…
Photo: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Sergio Leone is a classic example of dubbed post-war European film. Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy As an English-speaker in Europe I…
Photo: Haunani-Kay Trask in an undated photo. As a professor, poet and activist, she pushed for the recognition of Hawaii’s Indigenous people. “I am not soft, I am not…
R&B Records in this sketchy neighborhood out past West Philly, July/August 2021 | RICHARD GRANT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY JASON VARNEY | Smithsonian Magazine I first heard about Val Shively—a…
Photo: Odalys de la Caridad Lara Reyes entertains employees by reading to them as they work making cigars at the La Corona Tobacco factory in Havana.(Ismael Francisco /…
03 July 2021 | RICK MOORE | American Songwriter | Includes additional videos and articles. Some songwriters write for an entire lifetime and never see much success, or…