Tagged: edutainment

Eastbay, I appreciate your company allowing me the opportunity to waste my hard-earned money on my frivolous sneaker purchases. What I don't appreciate is getting a mangled box tossed at [...]

Like KRS-One once said, "You must learn." That's why for the third consecutive year* now, we're using up valuable page space to break some bad news to a few rappers [...]

DAN MILLEN is out as booking agent of the Middle East Upstairs in Cambridge, replaced by NED WELLBERY of LEEDZ EDUTAINMENT. Leedz is a leading hip-hop promoter around the Boston region, but the live... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .

For those of us who watched Roots in school, there's one truth about America and its race relations. Slavery will always serve as the country's blackest of black eyes. Once [...]

Now that I'm older and able to put it all in perspective, my indoctrination into the shoe game occurred early in life. And, in a lot of ways, I have [...]

For February, Nike prepares for their annual Black History Month releases across the board. Here, we catch an early glimpse of Nike Sportswear's BHM collection which features both footwear - [...]

According to TMZ, Soul Train creator Don Cornelius, 75, was found dead in his Sherman Oaks, California home. Early reports indicate he suffered from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the [...]

Yahoo: "Did Snoop Dogg (born Calvin Cordozar Broadus) endorse GOP candidate Ron Paul for president? "Well, sort of. The rapper posted a photo of Paul on his Facebook page Sunday [...]

Don't get Fox News started on the media. Those liberal hippies have been eschewing a smear campaign against the Grand Ol' Party for decades now. Any outlet outside Rupert Murdoch's [...]

Election time means one important thing: crazy ass campaign videos. Here I've been lamenting over the loss of Herman Cain and all those ideas "swirrrrlin'" around his head while forgetting [...]

Students of the game remember this clip of Eazy-E on The Arsenio Hall Show* for the Hip-Hop history it rightfully represents. Showcasing Eric Wright in all of his controversial, charismatic [...]

We all know the saying, "Men lie, women lie, numbers don't..." which has become the modus operandi on how the music industry deems it should cater to when measuring an [...]

As most have heard by now, Apple's next ambitious goal is to take over the textbook industry. But in case you missed yesterday's big announcement, it's pretty self-explanatory: Apple plans [...]

Gizmodo: "There are plenty of players in the no-questions-asked online storage game: HulkShare, MediaFire, YouSendIt. They're all staples of web sharing—and they're all still up and running today. Partly because [...]

Here's a quick exercise. Log on to Megaupload. Can't get on, huh? Ars Technica reports the site has been shut down by federal prosecutors in Virginia. The same group of [...]

During his show's two-year run (many of us don't count the third season), Dave Chappelle used his clout in the entertainment industry to reel in rap's A-listers for weekly musical [...]

At some point, everyone we know moves on. Many times their passing is from drawn-out, casually crippling causes like cancer or diabetes. Other times whimsical outliers like heart attacks, natural [...]

To have your support reciprocated by the President is an honor that comes along once in a lifetime. Janelle Monáe captured lightning in a bottle recently during a re-election rally [...]

Last week, we laughed at the thought of Trina posing as the spokeswoman for Tax USA but she's neither the first, nor will she be the last rapper to appear [...]

There's not much else to be said about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that has yet to be mentioned in documentaries, books and news reports. However, if a personal, intimate [...]