(BPRW) Florence Price: New Album Celebrating The Music Of Pioneering African American Composer (Black PR Wire) We are absolutely delighted to announce our new album celebrating the wonderful life and trailblazing works of Florence Price, on this, the 70th anniversary year of her death. To be released on 23rd June, the album includes Price’s Piano Concerto […]
Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, has died at age 84. Hughes, who is also remembered as a tireless child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist, died on Dec. 1 in Tampa, Florida, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, the Associated Press reports. According to Hughes’ daughter, Delethia Ridley Malmsten, the beloved activist […]
In recent decades, Wells has been recognized with various honors, including scholarships, awards and postage stamps bearing her name or likeness. The New York Times recently published an obituary of Wells along with other women who were “overlooked” by the paper during its long history. While her death in 1931 was indeed overlooked by the […]
Prince Markie Dee has died at the age of 52 in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, according to Rock The Bells, the radio station where he worked. The iconic rap pioneer, whose real name was Mark Anthony Morales, was one member of the rap trio The Fat Boys, which played a pivotal role in making hip-hop […]
Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is setting the blueprint for HBCUs to enter the legal cannabis industry. The strictly prohibited cannabis plant has grown into a nearly $20 billion industry as of last year, according to Techcrunch. Unfortunately, as the cannabis industry booms and heads to a $40 billion annual industry […]