#black-culture

#black-culture

This year, the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music will honor Black History Month by showcasing the achievements by Black Americans, while also exploring and commemorating the historical struggles the community experienced.To celebrate this year's Black History Month, the BKCM will have two musical events - the Connection & Harmony: A Sing-Along Celebration of Black Musical Ideas and Interpretations on Friday, Feb. 17 at 4 p.m. and History Through Music: Protest and Freedom Songs with Tahira Clayton on Saturday, Feb. 25.

School is almost out for winter break, and if you're still scratching your head about how to keep the little Brooklynites busy, look no further than Brooklyn Children's Museum.The Crown Heights institution's Black Future Festival returns this Sunday, February 19 for a week of forward-looking fun that features dance performances, interactive storytelling and hands-on activities, commemorating Black History Month.

Where: Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, 3130 24th St.
When: Friday, Feb. 24, 5 to 9 p.m.
Lucie Scanlon is an Oakland-grown artist based between the Bay Area and Chicago, Illinois.She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019 focusing on painting and ceramics.

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Photoville, a yearly public art display across the Five Boroughs, is coming back on June 3 with tons of new exhibitions at the iconic Photoville Village in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Award-winning chef and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson is opening a restaurant in the Old Fourth Ward in March, as first reported by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.But now there are more details on what's in store for the chef's latest restaurant.Taking over the former Adele's restaurant space, next door to Biggerstaff Brewing Company and Staplehouse on Edgewood Avenue, Marcus Bar and Grille will serve fresh oysters, a selection of steaks, live-fire dishes, and barbecue plates, and some of the Samuelsson's best known dishes from his cookbooks, like brown sugar wings and Old Bay crab cakes.

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9:30 Club | February 27

Los Angeles folk-pop singer-songwriter Natalie Mering, who performs as Weyes Blood, will bring her otherworldly melodies to DC. Expect to hear a collection of love songs and hymns from her fifth album, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow.Comedy
DAR Constitution Hall | February 14

Veteran DC radio host Joe Clair and a squad of funny people gather for a night of Valentine's joke-telling.

"A lot of the blues legends were living here around that time," Davies said."Etta James, Charlie Musselwhite and Elvin Bishop were here.Bonnie Raitt was in Marin, and she did so much to help revive Charles Brown's career."But it wasn't just the scene here.Traveling was easier.When I started touring with Charles, we did a lot of concerts and festivals, and it seemed like there were three tiers.

In a breezy 90 minutes, the crew's dynamic is clearly established and challenged as grudges are resurfaced, crossbows get flung, and bodies start dropping.The delight is derived from the highly specific comedic details, which consistently manage to take well-worn observations about Black culture - a fraught relationship with the TV show Friends and how certain signifiers might mark some people as "Blacker" than others, for starters - and stretch them in a myriad of unexpected directions.

Here's today's AdExchanger.comnews round-up... Want it by email?Sign up A Flurry Of Activity here.Will retail media ever flourish beyond garden walls?On Monday, Snowflake inked a partnership with Affinity Solutions, a company that sells purchase data for targeted advertising, so advertisers can access this data directly through Snowflake's platform.

France, the second biggest market for rap music in the world after the US, will host its first awards ceremony for rap, R&B and afro music on Thursday, following years of criticism that the popular genres are woefully under-represented at the country's mainstream music awards.Rap, R&B and afro dominate streaming downloads in France in what is considered to be a new golden age for French rap, four years after the US hip-hop magazine DJBooth deemed greater Paris area the world's most successful city for hip-hop.

For the Black community, the barbershop is more than just the place you get your hair cut or styled."If you've ever been in a Black barbershop, like, in that cultural space, anything goes," says Patrick Wallace, assistant director of the Student Success Center at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

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Cover of 'Black on Black' by Daniel Black.(Hanover Square Press)



These lines appear on the first page of Daniel Black's Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America:
Black on Black is not an easy read.Black's voice is strong, informed, angry, and relentless - and that infuses his essays with the power to affect readers.

I went to college at the University of Texas at Austin, a place where football reigns supreme.I wasn't much of a fan, but many of my classmates showed up as dyed-in-the-wool devotees.Their zealotry wore me down, and I eventually joined the fans who packed into Darrell K. Royal stadium for every single Saturday home game.

Urban One Inc., the largest African-American owned and operated multi-media company, reaching over 80% of Black America, and Sounder, a contextual intelligence platform for audio, announced a partnership to conduct groundbreaking research.This research project aims to improve podcast ad technology to ensure equal monetization opportunities for all creators of audio content.

This episode contains strong language.Beyonce does all of her talking through her music, J Wortham says in this episode of Still Processing.And you get a sense of where she's at in her life based on how the music sounds.The pop star's seventh studio album, Renaissance, has ushered in a new era of Beyonce.

At Honeysuckle Provisions, their cafe and grocery store in Philadelphia, Omar Tate and Cybille St.Aude-Tate are adept at putting Black culture and heritage on the plate.Their sweet potato cheesecake bars with benne seed crust are no exception: When they were developing them, the couple came to their pastry chef, Aya Iwatani, with an idea for a cookie that encompassed flavors and ingredients that represented their histories.