It’s the start of a brand new year! Let’s kick it off with a look back at the greats of 2022, and where they left us. As any R&B fan knows, 2022 was the year of love- from finding it, to mourning its departure. Toxic love, lost affections, and even self-love made the charts this
Over the last 30 years, hip-hop music has gone from operating on the fringes of the music industry to producing some of the biggest global stars of their era. We will dip into the catalogue of legendary artists that made the East Coast and West Coast scenes so famous. In a battle that spans thirty
The lineup for the 2023 Jazz in the Gardens Music Festival has been announced. The festival, which takes place over two days at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, will feature R&B and soul acts such as Charlie Wilson, Erykah Badu, and Jill Scott, as well as Ari Lennox, El DeBarge, Jodeci, and Keyshia
Day26’s 2014 EP “The Return” has been made available on streaming services for the first time. The eight-track project features Baby Bash and the singles “Bulls**t” and “Lose Control,” a cover of Silk’s 1992 classic. Robert Curry of Day26 said in an Instagram post that he is glad the project is finally being heard and
SZA’s sophomore album, “SOS,” is spending its fifth consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album sold 125,000 equivalent units in the week ending Jan. 12 and is the first album to spend five straight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since Adele’s 2021 album, “30.” It has been
On Jan. 18, Governor Wes Moore was officially sworn into office on the steps of the Maryland State House. The first Black man to take the governor’s seat in the state publicly stepped into his role on the steps of a building built by slaves, with his hand on a bible that belonged to the
By AFRO Staff Though Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. only had 39 years on Earth, he knew how to maximize the potential of each day. AFRO Archives detail his movements across the country, trading from city to city preaching the gospel and equality for all. Though his civil rights work and leadership in the faith
By Jannette J. Witmyer, Special to the AFRO The real beauty of art is that its “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Since folks see things differently, it is meant to stimulate thought and initiate conversations, allowing for the discussion of subjective interpretations, objectively. The bottom line is that people either like a
By Rosie Allen-Herring Earned Income Tax Credit or EITC Awareness Day on Jan. 27, can be seen as the launch of tax season. EITC is a refundable tax credit available to qualifying lower-wage workers and their families. Childless workers younger than 25 are eligible for Maryland EITC (only childless workers aged between 25 and 64
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