Category: Arts

  • One Drop of Love Northern Arizona University Ashurst Hall Flagstaff, Arizona Wednesday, 2015-02-18, 18:00 MST (Local Time) Performed by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni. Presented by NAU College of Education One Drop of Love, is an hour-long one woman show. This funny, interactive and moving memoir explores history, family, race, class, justice and love and takes audiences from…

  • Brother from Another Mother The New Yorker 2015-02-23 Zadie Smith Key and Peele’s chameleon comedy. The wigs on “Key and Peele” are the hardest-working hairpieces in show business. Individually made, using pots of hair clearly labelled—“Short Black/Brown, Human,” “Long Black, Human”—they are destined for the heads of a dazzling array of characters: old white sportscasters…

  • EXCLUSIVE: Meet Hip-Hop’s Next Big Thing Nitty Scott, MC Latina 2015-02-13 Raquel Reichard If you’re a hip-hop fan, you may already be familiar with the genre’s latest heavy hitter: Nitty Scott, MC. This year alone the half-Puerto Rican, half-African American artist has been called the next big MC and a woman you should know. And…

  • Arturo O’Farrill: Afro-Latino Heritage Is ‘One Big Culture That We All Share’ The Huffington Post Latino Voices 2015-02-06 Roque Planas, Editor Arturo O’Farrill wants Africa to get the credit it deserves. The New York-based pianist, composer and educator traveled Friday to Los Angeles to attend the Grammys, where his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s “The Offense…

  • ‘One Drop’ at Cambridge Rindge & Latin The Boston Globe 2015-02-03 Meredith Goldstein, Entertainment Reporter From left: Junot Díaz, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, and Kate Ellis. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe) Actor-producer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni brought her one-woman show, “One Drop of Love,” to the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School on Friday night. The play,…

  • Brooklyn is: Feature of the Week [Beth Consetta Rubel] Brooklyn Artistry Brooklyn, New York 2015-02-02 The latest and greatest untouched talent of the borough. Being a biracial woman from the South we wanted to know what it was like for Beth Consetta Rubel as an artist. So many things can be triggering for an artists…

  • The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis. A Narrative Biography Esquiline Hill Press 2012 567 pages (est.) mobi ISBN: 978-1-58863-450-4 PDF ISBN: 978-1-58863-451-1 ePub ISBN: 978-1-58863-452-8 Harry Henderson Albert Henderson Edmonia Lewis was the first famous “colored sculptor” and the first to idealize her African and American Indian heritages in stone. She flourished from 1864 through…

  • U.S. to Collect Genetic Data to Hone Care The New York Times 2015-01-30 Robert Pear, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON — Saying that “the possibilities are boundless,” President Obama on Friday announced a major biomedical research initiative, including plans to collect genetic data on one million Americans so scientists could develop drugs and treatments tailored to the…

  • About Hatsumi… with Toronto Director Chris Hope: Part 1 of 3 Discover Nikkei 2012-06-27 Norm Masaji Ibuki An extraordinary and beautiful film…exhaustively and passionately researched, both at the level of the filmmaker’s personal history and as an investigation into our national consciousness” —Academy Award® Nominated Director, Atom Egoyan Thus far in 2012, the 70th anniversary…

  • Tracee Ellis Ross: ‘That Hurt Like the Bejesus’ The New York Times 2015-01-22 Tracee Ellis Ross Credit Pej Behdarvand for The New York Times The actress talks with Jenna Wortham about defining her own sense of beauty and humor. It’s awards-show season. Do you like going to the shows? I didn’t actually go to the…