A missed turn signal. That’s all it took for DPS Trooper Brian Encinia to pull 28-year-old Sandra Bland over. What ensued sparked international outrage, resulting in Bland's suicide in her jail cell three days later.
Grammy winning artist, Gloria Estefan and her producer-husband, Emilio Estefan, will be honored during the PBS music special, Emilio & Gloria Estefan: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
In America’s 2019 cultural landscape, black playwrights often get overlooked by both the black and white community. Plays are just simply not as accessible for young black Americans as they are for affluent white Americans. The money that black teenagers could spend on going to a theater production is often left for more commonly accepted storytelling mediums, like film and music. When it comes to seeing theater on Broadway, the theater industry often relies on celebrities and nontraditional casting to target Black audiences.
Define "Rich" by Macy Partain
Heavy Body by Macy Partain
Catch Me If You Can by Macy Partain
Negozio di fiori and Amore di plastica by Pia Rogue
Native Redman II by Oluwah Akinyemi
Self Portrait with Butterfly Clips by Jamie Robertson
Untitled by KaDavien Baylor
White Oak's End by Erica Lee
Beer Runs by Alex Zapata
Ezla Lewis as DJ
Arka Panorama by Desiree Cantu
Arka Art Studio hosted an exhibit for twelve local artists to display their pieces for sale on Saturday, April 20th.
After months of anticipation, Barack and Michelle Obama, partnering with their production company Higher Ground, finally unveiled the details to their exclusive Netflix projects yesterday that encompass a wide range of fiction and non-fiction productions for all audiences.
When John Singleton helped cut the trailer for ‘Boyz n the Hood’, he purposely enticed audiences with the majority of the film’s gunplay and violence, hooking potential moviegoers without focusing on the father-son relationship that the film is actually about.
The Soul Purpose Stage Play has been touring across cities. Saturday, April 13th they performed for Houston in the Wortham Theater Center with our very own Twins of Media, hosting the play. It is an inspirational story of five women seeking their soul purpose in life. Each woman has a different struggle but the same God to lean on.
Drive. Ambition. Passion. George Thomas embodied these traits and more, yielding a successful career and fulfilling life with shining optimism anywhere he could.
Diversity and inclusion have become critical issues in 2019 in regards to advertising, corporate sponsorships and market representation.
In February he was in a tuxedo at the Grammys, living it up with some of the world’s most famous and critically acclaimed musicians.