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Soul Power! January 15th, 2011 9pm-2am $5 before 10pm, $10 after.  21+ Medusa Lounge  3211 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90026 DJs Al Jackson, A-ski, DJ Jedi, and DJ Kaleem spinning the best in Hip Hop, R&B, Funk, and Soul.  Special sets in honor of the great James Brown Proceeds go to benefit the Elevate Hope Foundation ...

Pre- Sale Tixs Here What a great blessing to celebrate the first Afro Funke’ of 2011 with the Afro Funke’ Sound System featuring resident DJs Jeremy Sole & Glenn Red plus host Rocky Dawuni with all of our extended family of revelers! Special thanks to percussionist Tom Orr for gracing us with his music as well as surprise ...

PRE-ORDER AT FAT BEATS NOW LIMITED EDITION MULTI-COLOR SWIRL VINYL As a boy growing up in Brooklyn, Kweli saw gutters that ran with dirt, oil and water, revealing a shimmering rainbow to his child's eyes. Drawing its title from this memory, this album puts at the raw center what his music has ...

New mix from frolaborator i,Ced to celebrate the start of 2011! Enjoy! The List: Skye – Ain’t No Need Denroy Morgan – I’ll Do Anything For You Vanity feat. Morris Day – Mechanical Emotion Seven Davis Jr. – Intermission Cherrelle with Alexander O’ Neal – Saturday Love (I, CED Reworked Mix) Teena Marie Suite: a) Behind The Groove b) ...

Via: @kevinNottingham The crowd at The Local 269, a shabby New York City bar on 269 Houston Street, could not have been less interested. The bartender scribbled on his notebook, two older men talked to a woman half their age, and a gaggle of NYU students crowded a booth by the ...

About the film: Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive film biography, eighteen years in ...