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Check out The New Black Fest through October 17

Next gen voices in the theater + me on the decks!

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Vote for the BRC to get a Pepsi Refresh grant

The BRC is up for a $250K grant. Please vote for it!

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FTW! Black Girls in Space + other scenes from Idea Festival 2010

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Two generations of space girls meet at a conference and. . .

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Help end violence against women and girls–9/28

Here’s how you can help protect women and girls around the world.

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6 Things To Know About The Black Rock Audience

Research that begins to answer the question: “Just who IS the audience for black rock?”

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Help Valerie June fund her first album

An artist digitally passes the hat to get her first album funded. Check it out.

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A Conversation with Kevin Powell

The race for Brooklyn’s 10th Congressional District ends tomorrow. Hear what one of the candidates has to say.

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WRFB-Radio Free Brooklyn Fundraising Drive

Saturday, July 31 kicks off the first of three fundraisers that we’ve organized to help keep the stream alive. Find out how you can support community Internet radio!

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UPCOMING: Conversations on Michael Jackson's Black America — 6/5

The trouble with living in NYC is there's often TOO much happening on the same day.  Case in point: Saturday, June 5.  In addition to the BRC 25th anniversary show, the screening of Kenyan sci-fi film Pumzi, add this event at the Schomburg to your list. Lots of good discussion happening here, so whatever you [...]

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Guitarist Ronny Drayton on his son's incarceration — part 1

For those of you who are not familiar with guitarist Ronny Drayton, let me tell you: He’s extraordinary.  Ronny has played for a gang of folks over the course of his career, artists such as Roy Ayers, The Family Stand, Nona Hendryx, Meshell Ndegocello, Defunkt, to name only a few. And he recently stepped out [...]

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GOOD READS: #TrayvonMartin Around The Web

So much conversation–and now maybe some justice–for this young man.

GOOD READ: Charles Blow on the Trayvon Martin case

Will an innocent black boy get justice?

What’s Race Got To Do With It?

The antidote to the country’s first black president

Why Is The N.Y.P.D. After Me?

A 23-year-old New Yorker talks about having been stopped and frisked by NYPD at least five times.

The Rise of the New Confederacy: How America-Hating Right-Wingers Took Over The GOP

Those on the extreme right are different. Here’s how and why.

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