With the increasing number of films aimed towards black audiences in the early 1970s, filmmakers realized that they couldn’t turn to Henry Mancini to provide the musical backdrops for these movies.

*Bill Cosby used his trademark humor and storytelling style to chide hundreds gathered Saturday at the Essence Music Festival’s empowerment seminars into talking to their children about real life and, in the process, keeping it simple. “We’ve got to lay it out for them,” Cosby said when asked about how to help cut the rate […]

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jungle boogie (jungle –oft attrib to Hindi jangal + boogie – prob alter of bogle – goblin, object of fear) a 1974 hit by Kool & the Gang, frequently sampled by hip-hop artists, perhaps the funkiest piece of music ever recorded.

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A love child of the late James Brown is claiming that her father’s remains have gone missing. “My daddy’s body has disappeared. I have no clue where it was taken, but I need to know where,” said LaRhonda Pettit in an interview with Britain’s Daily Mirror. The soul legend’s body was put in a crypt […]

The hours immediately following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr were understandably a very tense time across the United States.