Here is a Valentine’s Day destination for those seeking live musical entertainment on February 14th. Check out Notez&Flow: The Love Edition at Memphis Botanic Gardens.
The lineup of talent will be led by producer/songwriter/musician Keenan Shotwell. The mix will feature popular...
“Overcoming: How Faith, Family, and Friends Helped One Black Man Beat the Odds,” chronicles the life journey of Dr. Willie Dean.
Those bedrocks helped Dean rise from a poor, African-American child born to sharecropper parents, to becoming the first president...
While some say you can’t put the cart before the horse, some have no choice but to do so.
Ekundayo Bandele, founder of Memphis’ first and only Black Repertory Theatre, built an empire before ever obtaining an undergraduate degree.
And now...
When 18-year-old Jim Stewart made the trek to Memphis from his family’s West Tennessee farm, he had dreams of becoming the next big country music star.
As it turned out, Stewart was instrumental in creating the world-famous Memphis brand of...
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On Monday, Academy Award-winning actor Will Smith gave his first TV interview since the infamous Oscars slap during an appearance on "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah."
While there, in promotion of his new film, "Emancipation," which is...
by Stacy M. Brown --
A new exhibition debuting next spring at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will celebrate Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther hero costume.
“Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures,” opens on March 24,...
“The Urban Hymnal” by Tennessee State University’s Aristocrat of Bands (AOB) is so good that the Recording Academy has nominated it for Best Roots Gospel Album, along with a second Grammy Award nod for their collaboration on a spoken...
by Hillel Italie --
Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and sustained a career otherwise upended...
Among the hot independent films of 2022 is “Meet the Snows,” which combines art and entertainment to create social awareness around human trafficking in one grand performance.
“Meet The Snows” will be screened Thursday (October 27) at 7 p.m. at...
“United Front: The People’s Convention 1991 Memphis” – showing Sunday (Oct. 23) at the Malco Studio On The Square theater as part of the Indie Memphis Film Festival line-up – has been selected for Television broadcast at the Black...