Native Son
Youtube is streaming all of the 44-odd minutes of Blitz the Ambassador’s second studio album, “Native
Culture
Music Break
Beautiful video for the single “You will never know” by the young, French-Comoran singer, Imany. The
Queer Families
Sometimes AIAC collaborator Nerina Penzhorn’s documentary, “Waited For,” about interracial adoptions in South Africa of mostly
Soul Food
The trailer for director Byron Hurt‘s new film “Soul Food Junkies.” The film, “… explores the
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT0I2DyclIo The video “Niemand” [No One] by German singer, Joy Denalane (featuring her husband Max Herre)
Fool's Gold
http://youtu.be/Es-SyYrpg2c Fool’s Gold’s “Surprise Hotel.” The group started as a side project of two young LA
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0mB59n0zBA&w=500&h=301&rel=0] Oakland, California rap group The Hieroglyphics and Goapele singing about some kind of Soweto circa
'Suffer'
New video from M.anifest H/T: Peter Rachleff
When it hits, you feel no pain
Music and politics are often intimate partners in society, whether an artist consciously connects them. What role does music play in the politics of today's world?
His father named him for Duke Ellington
Late jazz musician Duke Ngcukana, has been described as “a trumpet player extraordinaire," and "a fine person.”
Oliver Hermanus at Cannes
“Skoonheid,” the new film by South African director Oliver Hermanus will be screened in the Un
'Brown Baby'
H/T: Rich Flint
'Insurrection'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQNGoqdQnRk&w=500&h=301&rel=0] Single released April 11th, which is the 30th anniversary of the Brixton riots that levelled
Return to the Motherland
From the late 1950s, emigration to independent Africa became a feasible option for African Americans tired of U.S. racial segregation. After Apartheid, South Africa became too.
Tunde Olaniran
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/10046418 w=500&h=281] Tunde Olaniran is hip hop. Tunde Olaniran is the son of an American mother
'Coming to America'
[vodpod id=Video.5972910&w=500&h=411&fv=videoId%3D897337827001%26amp%3BlinkBaseURL%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.newyorker.com%252Fvideo%253FvideoID%253D897337827001%26amp%3BplayerID%3D673564960001%26amp%3BplayerKey%3DAQ%7E%7E%2CAAAAAF1454s%7E%2CQH_ygumSKiVg91q-ZwBlqWe1HcfbhDds%26amp%3Bdomain%3Dembed%26amp%3BdynamicStreaming%3Dtrue] Writer Teju Cole— he has a new novel, “Open City”–talks and writes about identity
Reality TV
The practice of renting out Cape Town’s “scenery” and its cheaper film crews can have its
Mural Art in Woodstock
What’s happening in (Cape Town’s neighborhood) Woodstock that makes local hipsters flood the place? The speed
Stereo Wizards
Electronic rap duo and “stereo wizards” Dirty Paraffin at the Faraday Muthi Market in downtown Johannesburg