Courtesy of our play cousins The Foreign Exchange, peep the new lead single from their release Authenticity dropping on 10/14/10.

Cee Lo does is again with another joint from his soon to be released album Lady Killer.

Transformational counselor, lifestyle expert, musician and writer K. Neycha Herford has joined CentricTV.com as a featured contributor to provide radically fresh perspectives on common problems. Through her new webisode, “Situation reMixed”, produced exclusively for CentricTV.com, Neycha helps viewers shift their agreements with their problems and remix their lives.

In a touching tribute to Richard Pryor, award winning writer Ed Garnes praises the genius who served as a life long inspiration.

I am not a slam poet.

I’ve been planning to write this essay for months now. I needed to wait. To unclench my teeth and unfold my yellow/black fists and step away. I had to breathe, so I could form my fingers into the shape of a writer and hold my pen steady when I finally decided to fire back.

The text I will make reference to makes me want to write my first “slam” poem since 1996 and beat the ideas of this book down in 3 minutes or less. But, I gave up battling with art so long ago. Battling, which is from the “dozens,” which was put on the map by Emcees, not Slam Poetry, as this book asserts, so this space on the page is where I will challenge the text.

Fahamu Pecou Art, Inc. proudly announces Clark Atlanta University Collections of African American Art’s acquisition of Martyr, Inc. – a painting from Pecou’s acclaimed body of work, ALL FALLS DOWN. The Clark Atlanta University Collections of African American Art collects, preserves, studies and exhibits fine art works that document American history and culture.