Michael Blackson: ‘The African King of Comedy’ Makes Money with Laughs
byMichael Blackson, the “African King of Comedy, ”sat down with Adesewa Faleti, of Crown of Excellence Entertainment, between Blackson’s headlining comedy shows at the…
Michael Blackson, the “African King of Comedy, ”sat down with Adesewa Faleti, of Crown of Excellence Entertainment, between Blackson’s headlining comedy shows at the…
Ten years since its inception, the Austin chapter of the National Black MBA Association is the city’s premier Black business collective, but you don’t need the degree…
I’ve been trying to understand why certain entertainer’s deaths hurt me so much. Luther Vandross…Gerald Levert…Michael Jackson…Whitney Houston…and now Prince. I think it’s because…
President Barack Obama said Sunday as he visited with U.S. Embassy staff in rainy Havana that he hoped the sight of a U.S. president…
The annual Essence Music Festival is known as “the party with a purpose.” It’s an event primarily sponsored by Essence Magazine, a publication aimed toward African-American women. Celebrating the festival’s 20th anniversary in New Orleans on Jul. 3 to 6, the festival’s speaker line-up this year includes Austinite Jonathan Sprinkles.
Dr. Martin Luther King said it best, “An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
soulciti overviews the speakers and topics at the LBJ Library’s Civil Rights Summit, to be held next week in honor of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Carlos’ book, which is endorsed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Michael Moore and includes a foreword by Dr. Cornel West, brings to life the story behind the man in the iconic 1968 Olympic photo.
Many of us remember where we were, who we were with, and how we felt on the remarkable day when Barack Obama won the election to become President of the United States. Although others cried out and obstinately declared they would leave the country in protest, fair-minded individuals regardless of who they voted for confidently acknowledged the noteworthy event.