Sekou Sundiata – “Space” Last weekend, I attended the Tongues of Fire tribute to Sekou Sundiata at the Apollo and I must say it was a beautiful, stirring and electrifying tribute. Curated by musical director Craig Harris, the show included his band Nation of Imagination as the musical background as for a few moving musical […]
Read More Modern Griots Reviews: Tongues of Fire and Erykah Badu*Tonight at 6:30pm, live podcast for “African Women and Girl Storytellers in the Digital Age.” *This weekend at Harlem’s Apollo Theatre, Blitz the Ambassador, Nneka, Freshlyground, The Soil and Lokua Kanza will be performing at Africa Now! I will be there at Saturday’s concert. * Kickstarter campaign for animated series, Spider Stories, pilot. Here is […]
Read More Moving on the Wires: Africa Now, Spider Stories, Steamfunk!, Peoples Science…I remember randomly coming across this video while looking up information on Lisa Nicole Carson and what happened to her because she seemed to have disappeared from film. This is an Apollo History Moment, which was part of Apollo Comedy Hour, in the ’90s. It stars Lisa Nicole Carson and Paula Jai Parker in the form […]
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Sherese Francis 