Following the release of “Love and Death”, Ebo Taylor is touring in Europe these days. Although

http://vimeo.com/18671156 Zimbabwean rapper/MC/poet UpMost aka My Brother’s Keeper shares his ‘Lost for Words’, recorded in Harare

The writer Edouard Glissant has died. Glissant, a native of Martinique, citizen of France, was known

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvCjZ6gThyY&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for the Dominican merengue singer, Rita Indiana‘s “El Juidero,” the title track of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPeN3ZNCOE Google’s new Art Project makes use of the street-view technology to take us by the

The End is near. I have no illusions about this regime or its leader, and how

Dated, but still worth a look. Interview with the 2010 Caine Prize finalists.

Writer and journalist Gary Younge in a 2007 column in “The Nation”–that’s still worth repeating–on Black

Dutch website profiles Harlem-based singer Somi (of Rwandan and Ugadan descent, raised in downstate Illinois).

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7-T50Lr3A&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Salif Keita performs his standard “Folon” live on Dutch TV in March 2010.

Overheard: “At least he will introduce the Egyptians to the form-fitting black t-shirt.” “If the Egyptians