New Orleans Tourism Wants To Promote Black-Owned Businesses
It has been an exciting week in New Orleans with the city wrapping up its Mardi Gras celebrations. The city has progressed a lot over the years but gentrification has…
Rapper 50 Cent Hints at Becoming The New CEO of Def Jam Recordings
Rapper, actor, producer, and entrepreneur 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, hinted that he may be taking the vacant chairman/CEO position of Def Jam Recordings. The business mogul…
President Obama Demands TV Stations Halt Anti-Joe Biden Commercial
Attorneys for former President Barack Obama have sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Republican super PAC this week to stop a misleading commercial that uses Obama’s words against his former…
eBay Removes All Kobe Bryant Memorial Items
Capitalizing on items related to the memorial for Kobe Bryant will not be taking place on the eBay website, according to TheGrio. Online marketplace eBay is refusing to allow the…
Meet The Seven-Year-Old Youth Activist Who Created An Anti-Bullying Campaign
With the raising rate of child suicide and depression among young teens, it has become increasingly important to raise awareness that harassment and bullying, online and off, have on the…
Ghanaian Teacher Teaches Microsoft Word to Students Using a Blackboard
Richard Appiah Akoto, a teacher from Ghana, garnered international praise for instructing his students on how to use Microsoft Word in a very unusual way—without utilizing a computer. Two years…
Basketball Coach Jerome Allen Hit with One of the Most Severe Penalties in NCAA History
Former Penn coach Jerome Allen has been hit with one of the most severe penalties ever handed out by The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Allen, who is currently employed…
Taxi TV Turns Strange, Thanks to Artist Christopher Williams – ARTnews.com
If you board a taxi in New York right now, you’ll most likely see the usual videos playing on a small monitor screen: canned news broadcasts about happenings around the…
Roberta Smith on the Power of Donald Judd’s Criticism – ARTnews.com
If Minimalist artist Donald Judd is known as a writer at all, it’s likely for one important text—his 1965 essay “Specific Objects,” in which he observed the rise of a…