For all you Jimi Hendrix fans who are also parents of music loving little ones, be sure to add this to your youngster's bookshelf: Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix - by Gary Golio and illustrated by Javaka Steptoe. “To really know about a person, you ...

via comicbookmovie.com IGN Comics has announced information about the forthcoming release of the Black Panther on DVD, in a six episode series that stars Djimon Hounsou as Black Panther; Jill Scott as Storm; Kerry Washington as Princess Shuri; Alfre Woodard as both Dondi Reese and Queen Mother; Carl Lumbly as Uncle S'Yan; and ...

Cover Black Star Common “True Hip Hop” by Mike Schreiber About Mike Mike Schreiber is a self-taught New York-based photographer with a degree in anthropology from the University of Connecticut. His work has been featured in Esquire Magazine, Rolling Stone, TRACE, New York Magazine, VIBE, XXL, SLAM, SPIN and Arise. Schreiber has also shot ad ...

Fat Beats Memory Lane: On my first visit to Fat Beats NYC i bought  DJ Muro's "King Of Diggin vol 1" on cassette a copy of "On The Go" and  "Stress" magazine. Known around the world as King of Diggin’, Muro is the Tokyo hip hop legend who is a rapper, DJ and ...

OMG, they're like, totally using Afro Picks... in 2010?! What were the people in charge thinking?! (roll eyes here.) Apparently some tweople are upset about PublisherWeekly's cover image this issue. The topic is "New books and trends in African-American publishing" and the headline they went with: "Afro Picks!" Via PW's twitter, the ...

Surfing around on Issuu (one of my new favorite places to get lost on the net), I thought this very insightful 'handbook' of sorts on "How To Be Creative" by Hugh MacLeod was definitley worth sharing. Sometimes you just need to hear it put plain and simple!