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On My Radar: Afro-Punk 2009

June 5, 2009

BAMcinematek and Toyota present
The 5th Annual Afro-punk Festival
featuring Film, Music, Art, Skateboarding and Independence
July 3 – 8 in Brooklyn, NY
Thanks to BFF, I’ve been going to AP shows since 2005. Last year I did a feature on the Afro-Punk festival and community for MTV News. It took six months to pull everything together and [...]

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Bushwick Tales: My First House Party

February 22, 2009

On Saturday I hosted my first house party since moving to NY. Attendees were friends from Afro-Punk and random nice people off the street! We listened to music, livestreamed on a private channel, workshopped some material, ate a lot of snacks and had lots of great convos.

Kaos Blac beat me to this by writing about [...]

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Newcomer Nikki Jane Channels Skin’s Style & Janelle Monae’s Trajectory – With A Sound All Her Own

November 3, 2008

 Sporting a do and fashion sense similar to former Skunk Anansie front woman Deborah Anne Dyer (Skin), 18 year old Valencia Burse aka Nikki Jane released her debut music video for “I Love You” last month, a single that is already building an impressive online following. Like Dyer, Nikki Jane proudly rocks non traditional [...]

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Summer Fun with Janelle Monáe @ Afro-Punk

July 8, 2008

A while back I wrote an open letter to Summer ‘08 and listed Janelle Monáe’s music as a source of inspiration and adventure. Little did I know at the time that it was a self-fulfilling prophesy.

This past weekend I was at BAM in Brooklyn shooting performances and holding interviews with the artists at the 4th [...]

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Afro-Punk thread: Black Female Antagonists in Cinema

July 2, 2008

I love the feedback and opportunities for thoughtful interaction that I get through my profile on afropunk.com.
Within this space, I recently re-posted an older blog entry I had written a while ago about Girl Antagonists in Cinema. Matrix commented and asked me to expound on a similar yet slightly broader (and more challenging) category: Black [...]

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