Over a decade ago, award winning journalist Ed Garnes scored a musical coup writing the print debut of Decatur Duchess Divinity Roxx, Beyonce’s resident bass diva whose guitar licks and spit fire rhymes have won industry stamps of approval and an adoring international fan base. Divibaby shows From Afros To Shelltoes some love with an exclusive track, feat Killer Mike and Hustle Boy, from her upcoming release Roxx Boxx.

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For Ed Garnes, founder of From Afros To Shelltoes, veteran journalist T.J. Holmes’ move from CNN to BET conjures up a weighty question:“Whose kool aid is sweeter…CNN or BET?”

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Our play cousins The Foreign Exchange have released their video for “The Last Fall”. Film scores are truly in their future.

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photo:Shannon McCollum Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter and record producer Raphael Saadiq has announced the release of his fifth studio album Stone Rollin’ on March 22, 2011 on Columbia Records.

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On January 8, 2011, Dallas’ Conduit Gallery plays host to Pecou’s Second Childhood, a new body work pulled from his HARD TO DEATH series examining social behaviors within black male culture. Black masculinity aint gonna neva’ be the same. Now, run and tell that homeboy!

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Dr. Mark Anthony Neal and Dr. Boyce Walks wax poetics on removal of N word from Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn on CNN.

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In this episode of Sweet Tea Ethics, Ed Garnes, Dr. Cornel West, and Clifton West discuss the accessibility of love, spiritual malnutrition, moral constipation Dr. Martin Luther King and Tupac Shakur. To book a Sweet Tea Ethics event contact sweetteaethics@afrostoshelltoes.com.

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Award winning writer, counselor, and activist Edward M. Garnes, Jr., founder of From Afros To Shelltoes (FATS) , a community based art programming collective focused on bridging generation gaps between youth, elders, and hip hop heads, will join top music executives and industry professionals at Radio One’s 2ndAnnual Media & Entertainment Conference (MEC). The event will take place on November 20, 2010 at the Raleigh Convention Center (500 Salisbury Street; Raleigh, North Carolina 27601).

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