From Afros To Shelltoes sponsors STIR ( Sounds Thoughts Ideas & Rhymes) feat award winning activist Ed Garnes Jr., E. Period Founder Cocktails, R&B Group Shai, Spoken Word Artist Malcolm Jamal Warner, Vocalist Rhonda Thomas, BET Comedians Corwin O and Mario Tory, Spinxx and many more.

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From Afros To Shelltoes play cousin Phonte pulls double duty rapping and crooning on his new single “Not Here Anymore,” feat Elzhi with 9th Wonder on production. The joint can be found on the album Charity Starts At Home to be released via The Foreign Exchange Music/Jamla on September 27, 2011.

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Artist/counselor/filmmaker Neycha, whose psycho-educational documentary The ReMixed Mind: Crossfaders, Visionaries and other Revolutionaries [TRM] takes therapy from the couch to masses, has recently wet the whistle of audiences thirsty for her mix of brutal honesty and human transformation by releasing excerpts of her sit down with heady hip hop icon Killer Mike. From freestyle sessions on the playgrounds of Collier Heights Elementary School to his activist leanings as a student leader at Frederick Douglass High School, Mike has long represented a combative spirituality fusing hip hop theology with southern fried candor. Peep him break down the politics of fear and expanding personal possibility.

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From Afros To Shelltoes will lace two lucky winners with a pair of tickets to Hollalujah: A Comedy Experience (Clean Show)
Friday, August 19, 2011 (Doors open @ 8 pm, show starts @ 9pm). Featuring Jazz Sensation Joey Sommerville, Def Poet Shanelle Gabriel, Bet Comedian Lavar Walker, and many more.

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From Afros To Shelltoes (FATS) always shows love to progressive movements and damn good music. In support of Atlanta’s One Music Fest August 27,2011, FATS will lace five (5) lucky winners with FATS Prize Packs courtesy of our play cousins Sol Fusion and featured artists The Foreign Exchange.

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Its back! The 4TH Annual Dekalb Family Fun Day, hosted by Dekalb County Commissioner Lee May and Project A.R.M will be held Sunday, August 7, 2011 from 3pm to 8pm. Dekalb Family Fun Day (DFFD) is free and open to the public.

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Muddy Water and Richard Dunn Present: GRAMMY-NOMINATED SOUL SINGER BILAL w/ SPECIAL GUEST N’DAMBI Saturday, July 23, 9pm at Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse (1099 Euclid Ave).

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NBAF Gil Scott Heron Tribute July 17, 2011: Sugar Johnson rocks the stage with jessica Care moore, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Joi, Rhonda Thomas, Kelsey Davis, DJ Doc, Nakayo Dupree, and DAZ-I-KUE. 7 piece band led by Henry Conerway III.

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Hip Hop’s Gordon Parks, internationally acclaimed photographer Shannon McCollum, directed a love letter to natural sistas worldwide for the dead prez joint “ The Beauty Within.” Peace to art director Jamila Crawford and editor Ari Johnson.

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Sat 6/11/11: Fahamu Pecou presents The 15 Project Black Music Month Spectacular featuring drumming legend John Roberts, r&b soultress Angie Stone, and hip hop icon stic.man. Co host the Occasional Superstar. Cha Cha Jones on the 1s and 2s with special guest The Strumming Mummy.

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Dr. Mark Anthony Neal drops a timely think piece, tear jerker, and cultural analysis on dear brother Gil Scott Heron.

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On the season finale of Left of Black, Princeton Professor Cornel West joins host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal in a conversation about the “Image of Black Males in the Age of Obama.” The discussion was recorded at the Baptist Grove Church in Raleigh, NC and sponsored by the Cornel West Academy for Excellence.

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