by October Gallery
The Caribbean’s first peer-to-peer car rental platform, Rent Yuh Ride (RYR), launched recently in Kingston, Jamaica—and it was created by a team of black women. Peer-to-peer car sharing is a…
There is definitely plenty of Hamiltons to distribute to this cause. Broadway sensation Lin-Manuel Miranda has committed $1 million to provide scholarships for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Theater…
Karma, at least for last night, was real. After being involved in a messy disagreement with their biggest and most celebrated fan, Spike Lee, the New York Knicks experienced its…
According to the USA Swimming Foundation, roughly 64% of black children have little to no swimming ability. While this statistic reinforces stereotypes about black people and swimming, there are myriad…
Philly Cuts barbershop offers health screenings Image: Instagram It is no secret that high blood pressure is a big problem in the black community. African American inner-city residents are five…
There is nothing more powerful than owning land in the United States. Because of this, the real estate industry has become an extremely lucrative business. For Osei Rubie, it means…
On Friday, Sotheby’s announced one of the top lots for its contemporary art evening auction: Francis Bacon’s 1981 Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus, a large-scale, three-part oil painting…
Laurie Anderson has been working and performing in many different mediums since the 1970s, when she came of age in a downtown New York milieu in which art forms expanded…
Dave Muller’s wall-size painting Dust Jacket #1 (NIM Strand), 2020, depicts a worn copy of the catalogue for a 1959 Museum of Modern Art exhibition curated by Peter Selz, “New…
The Armory Show in New York has designated the winners of three prizes: the Pommery Prize, the Presents Prize, and the inaugural Aware Prize, all conferred at the fair’s 2020…