Big Boi and hip hop heads use gaming as a release from everyday stress…

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R&B group DRU HILL just added!! Ed & Cocktails offer Career Counseling and Good Times @ STIR 2/21/09!!

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I wrote this piece when I left the plantation (my 9 to 5) at a college who slept on my genius. Don’t be a slave to your job…get your dreams out of layaway…find your FREEDOM MORNING!! I dedicate this poem to my homie Jessica Care Moore, a friend, poet, mother, and warrior who does not have to walk alone (WE GOT U)…

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For the uninitiated, Burns is a “lifestyle specialist” adept at forecasting trends well before a hibernating status quo has a clue. Just as Harlem Renaissance artists, businessmen, activists, and politicians appropriated the term “New Negro” to challenge conventional notions of black identity, Burns represents a cooler offspring “The New Black,” a cultural armor defining a new space of creative expression and personal agency.

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The following joint is an exclusive excerpt– Ed Garnes’ essay– from FAHAMENON, internationally acclaimed artist Fahamu Pecou’s art catalogue.

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Sugar Johnson offers a new poem on self preservation in the hood!!

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Our homie Anthony David & India.Arie are nominated for a Grammy (Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals). Peep the flyer to RSVP!

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Black is the new cool. With the superstar status of Obama and suburban youth still bumpin’ hip hop in their Volvos, black identity continues to be redefined and appropriated by mainstream consumer culture. And as we all the weather the Matrix, burgeoning photographer Carla Aaron-Lopez captures the grace and underappreciated complexity of black folks with her visual playground My (black)American Life.

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On Episode 6 Ed Garnes & Sugar Johnson breakdown how to balance balance the slippery slope of relationship vs career and why no one ever remembers Will Smith’s first wife. Plus, hilarious tips on how to keep her satisfied and HI-C juice boxes as travel gifts.

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On what would have been Everett Garnes’ B Day, his brother heals from his passing the best way he knows how…ART!!!!

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In a poignant poem, Ed Garnes responds to the death of Oscar Grant, a recent victim of police brutality.

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From running numbers to moonshine runs and after hour juke joints, black folks have often utilized the underground economy. Scarface is a hood hero because it is the ultimate underdog story.

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