The summer of 2023 was the season of women. Women dominated the charts all summer from Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town” and SZA’s “Snooze,” to Sexyy Red’s “Skeyee.” For the first time ever, the nominees for the MTV Music Video Awards Artist of the Year were all women. Nominees included Taylor Swift, Doja Cat, Shakira, […]
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The Howard University men’s basketball team currently has the largest managerial staff in the nation, and currently has over 70 students on staff. When you look at a college basketball team and think of a student manager, the first thing that probably pops up in your mind is wiping the court or handing out water
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I met up with Grindstone in NW, at Meridian Hill Park on Saturday to get an understanding of the origins of Grindstone, the business and the man. When planning the meet up on the phone, I asked what his name was to formally introduce myself. He responded, “People know me as Grindstone.” This to me
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The 2023 National Book Festival was held this year at the Library of Congress on August 12. Like past years it featured numerous talented authors, including R.K. Russell, who gained notoriety for telling his truth in the sports world and the book world. Russell gave insight into his life during an open forum with Book
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Korean Pop music, or K-pop, has been gaining popularity in the United States for the past five years. Early legends such as PSY, 2NE1, Girls Generation, and BIGBANG ran YouTube with astronomical numbers in views in the early 2010’s, but post 2016, K-pop and its fandom has been growing more and more. BTS has reached
Spotlighting Local Artist Brianna Ezeigbo Art within the Black community has been a staple tool in expressing a variety of social, political, and most of all personal values and feelings. Artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, who used neo-expressionism to convey ideas of culture, personal history, and social ideology have influenced countless other young artists, including Brianna
Every year near the end of July, hundreds of Liberians from across the country gather at The Embassy of the Republic of Liberia in Northwest Washington DC to celebrate July 26, Liberian Independence Day. On August 24, Liberia celebrates Flag Day. For the first time since COVID hit, I attended the Independence Day Festival with
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The legendary Beyoncé has completed her two-night engagement with the DMV Hive. Located at FedEx Field, each show was completely sold out. Renaissance, the album, pays homage to house music, disco, and the LGBTQ ballroom scene. Almost all the concert attendees made sure to dress for the party. There was a sea of silver, sequins,
His first solo studio album in eleven years, Killer Mike’s MICHAEL is the Atlanta rapper’s most personal endeavor to date. The fourteen-track record is an ode to both nativity and naiveté, its narrative being just as personal to him as it is to all those experienced in underprivileged Black life. From front to back, nothing
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Activism in the twenty-first century is unlike the activism of any previous era. Its most unique characteristic, of course, is the use of technology and social media to accomplish its goals. Surely, the Bolsheviks and Jacobins would’ve liked to have Instagram Live, but alas, thanks to social media, Internet search engines, and text messaging, the
