Random Urban Static: Spoken Word Poetry Power

Filed under: BlackSpin

Black Voices Blogs: The most talented spoken word artists, or "rhymecologists," proffer clever, vocabulary acrobatics as observations about the way we live in the world. They spit unexpected couplings, laying them down, end to end, from the beginning to the send. They... Read more

Source: Black Voices Blogs | 19 Jul 2008 | 9:00 am

Forgotten Soul Music: Part 2

Filed under: BlackSpin, Black History 365

Black Voices Blogs: Okay, I'm feeling it again. I keep listening to a lot of really poor excuses for R&B music on the radio, which seems to deliberately hide excellent Soul music and Hip Hop as if we, the listening public, are too stupid to know what good music is.... Read more

Source: Black Voices Blogs | 19 Jul 2008 | 5:00 am

Project Runway's 5th Strut

(A design from Christian Siriano, winner of Project Runway: Season 4) We thought Season 3 of Project Runway had seasoning, but Season 5 is already simmering with its own pot of flavor. With the most contestants of color we've ever seen in a single episode, Bravo's last season of Runway (season 6 is saying Aufedersein and moving to Lifetime) is one of its most diverse yet. Designers, Jerell

Source: The Cocoa Lounge (((Cocoalounge.com))) | 16 Jul 2008 | 5:58 pm

Sanaa Lathan and Nia Long Get Animated

Sanaa Lathan and Nia Long are packing up and heading to 'Cleveland.' The actresses will join Fox's Family Guy spin-off as the women in the title character, Cleveland Brown's, life. Sanaa will play Cleveland's love interest and Nia, her rebellious teenage daughter (no word yet on what will become of Cleveland's original wife, Loretta...) We hope that the show can translate Family Guy's niche

Source: The Cocoa Lounge (((Cocoalounge.com))) | 14 Jul 2008 | 2:44 pm