After premiering at the Hayti Film Festival, Stephanie Diane Ford’s debut short comes to Cucalorus’s virtual Triangle Shorties Film Festival.
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Her Take: DeeJay Samps’ “Street Flava Mixshow” Is a Hip-Hop Rite of Passage
“DeeJay Samps is literally the glue that holds the Triangle hip-hop scene together,” says J. Gunn.
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Pierce Freelon’s Daughter Almost Steals the Show on “D.A.D.”
Stella is the shining star of Freelon’s new “family album,” the perfect soundtrack for long family road trips.
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North Carolina Hip-Hop Artists Use Their Voices to Say Black Lives Matter
“Her Take: On Carolina Hip Hop” is a new recurring column by Kyesha Jennings.
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Reuben Vincent’s “Boy Meets World” Is Wise Beyond His Years
The 19-year-old Jamla Records artist discusses the influence of the hip-hop greats, what it’s like being signed on campus, and learning about the mysteries of love.
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Jamla R&B Artist Heather Victoria Unites HBCUs Against Police Brutality
The North Carolina Central graduate and three other alumni of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in N.C. will hold their first rally in Durham on July 25.
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Pierce Freelon and J. Gunn Celebrate Black Fatherhood with “Daddy Daughter Day”
Watch the new video from Freelon’s forthcoming album, “D.a.D.,” and hear him speak on turning family archives into family music.
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“You Snapped a Few Mural Pics. Now What?”
In the recent flurry of Black Lives Matter murals across the nation, Candy Carver’s challenge to Durham states the underlying tension of Black public art.
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Deniro Farrar’s “Sole Food” Is the Hip-Hop Album the World Needs Now
Kyesha Jennings offers a five-star recommendation of the Charlotte artist’s recent album, which contradicts the cliché that conscious rap is boring or depressing.
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Rising Raleigh Rapper Tanajah Went to Denmark to Put in Work. COVID-19 Isn’t Stopping Her.
Tanajah flew out of RDU expecting to perform at an international festival and shows. That was on March 8, three days before the novel coronavirus was declared a pandemic.