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St. Louis artist Christi Griffin is inviting art lovers into a world where color, texture, and emotion collide with the opening of her newest exhibition, A Symphonic Fusion of Color and Design, at Angad Arts Hotel in Grand Center. Presented by Delux Magazine and benefiting The Ethics Project,…
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Directly inspired by his surroundings, New Orleans artist and painter Brandon Felix has made a living capturing the beauty of his city and the essence of the black woman’s anatomy. Raised in the Calliope Housing Projects in the city’s third…
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Driven by a desire to merge community and creative artistry, Bell Darris created Art & Soul seven years ago as an outlet for St. Louis artists to come together. A diverse event showcasing some of the best musical, cultural and…
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There are MANY jobs that women can do just as good as men. From being a firefighter, lawyer, mechanic, and even construction site worker. PrettyNPaint, owned by Aaliyah Sahar talks with us about not limiting ourselves to just a certain…
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There are few black comic book writers and there are fewer here in St. Louis. One of them is David Gorden. He’s a writer and artist to comic books. His own creation, Kwame Hightower and the Man with No Name,…
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Well it looks like Whitney isn’t the only one getting her story told in a big way. The bad boy of R&B will be joining the list of entertainers who will have a biopic/movie made about him. The singer’s story…
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I am a black person aficionado. I would even go as far as to say I’m hella, hella black. I love black people, black traditions, black music, and most of all—black movies. There is just something about a black ass…
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As always, Denzel Washington never lets us down. He consistently gives us a solid body of work whether he is playing a crooked cop, a father who would do anything to save his son’s life, or in his recent role—a…
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Black-ish creator, Kenya Barris and Pharrell Williams are teaming up to bring some blackness to Broadway. The two industry geniuses have recently announced they will be creating a stage musical about Juneteenth—the black Independence Day—and last official day of slavery….
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As of late, I can openly say that like most, I have been standing at the crossroads of confliction and support. I’ve been trying to decipher between the myth I know and the man I don’t know. As a strong,…
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The City of University City’s Department of Community Development is inviting artists to submit designs for six wood benches that will be painted for Olive Boulevard bus stops without a bus shelter. These works of art will contribute to the…
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Uniquely positioned as possibly the first and only nationwide Master Class Series, a program featuring African American classical music masters and designed to partner with HBCUs, is on the move with National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) federal funding. Now…
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EJI is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. On April 26-27, an exciting array…
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Nubian Man avenges deaths of the Nubian people, or at least that’s how it’s going to go in this new comic book series created by Jersey-born writer, Zinc Nguvu, and illustrator Terry Brown of Lexington, Kentucky. The comic series derived…
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It takes a village to ensure our youth will become the best they can possibly be. With community organizations increasing, there hasn’t been a better time to chip in to help make the community a better place. An organization like…
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