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REVIEW: Dee Rees’ “Pariah”

A universal story of young woman gaining the confidence to declare her individuality.

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REVIEW: Meshell Ndegeocello – “Weather”

An album from a woman who has seen love in all its colors and lived to tell about it

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REVIEW: Doomtree — “No Kings”

The Minnesota hip hop collective delivers a strong year-end album

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REVIEW: Van Hunt — “What Were You Hoping For?”

The indie rock and soul genre smasher delivers his most sonically pleasing work to date.

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REVIEW: Saul Williams — “Volcanic Sunlight” (Columbia)

Saul Williams’ sprawling, experimental and joyfully tense follow up to “Niggy Tardust”

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REVIEW: Alrick Brown’s “Kinyarwanda”

A beautifully realized film brings out the humanity in both the heroes and the villains of the Rwandan genocide.

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Worth Seeing: Rashaad Newsome’s 21st Century Heraldry

Even though his NYC gallery exhibit closes this week, Rashaad Newsome is a name you’ll want to remember.

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LIVE @ NYPL: Doing A Lemonade With Gilberto Gil

Natalie Peart sits in on a conversation with the co-creator of tropicalia.

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REVIEW: Colin Grant's "The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer"

A new, triple biography illuminates the early lives and influences of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer

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REVIEW: "Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest"

Michael Rapaport’s doc does a solid job of contextualizing ATCQ, the moment they came on the scene, and their impact on hip hop

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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.

Christian Wikane’s 10 Reasons Donna Summer Belongs In the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame

10 reasons NOT including Donna Summer is a HUGE oversight.

TOUR DATES: Saul Williams’s “Volcanic Sunlight Tour” 2012

Catch Saul when he hits the road in North America in 2012!

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