Even though I bought D’Angelo’s 2000 sophomore album “Voodoo,” I was afraid to listen to it because I was still very much a church boy committed to Pentecostal doctrines. I was a choir director and ...
The R&B world was rocked Tuesday by the news that legendary singer D’Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 51. From icons to stars gone far too young, it has been a ...
Bodies keep surfacing — and so do questions. There's a dark current in Houston's bayous this year, with 16 bodies recovered, five of them in the same week last month. City leaders are downplaying ...
The chance to roast freshman Dallas Ferguson was too good for Tavis MacMillan to pass up. It was January 1993, and the DU hockey assistant coaches, then players at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, ...
Is love at first laugh a thing? When realtor and entrepreneur Rashida Miller first met Nathaniel Stroman, otherwise known as comedian Earthquake, the funnyman was in his element. It was 14 years ago ...
The R&B world has been rocked by tragedy in 2025. From legends and icons to stars gone far too young, it has been a heartbreaking year. Randy Brown joined sadly joined the long list of those who died ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Amid ongoing controversy, Mayor Brett Smiley said Monday that a new executive order should make it clear: Providence police officers are not immigration officers. In his ...
Actor Barbara Bain (TV’s “Mission: Impossible”) is 94. Singer David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat and Tears is 84. Actor Jacqueline Bisset is 81. Singer Peter Cetera (Chicago) is 81. Actor Christine ...
Tavis Smiley, author of The Covenant With Black America- Twenty Years Later, weighs in on the days political headlines. Smiley is the owner of KBLA Talk 1580, broadcasting out of historic Leimert Park ...
The versatile, restless, maddeningly guileful artist Rashid Johnson—whose career-spanning survey exhibition, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” is now up at the Guggenheim, inhabiting almost the entire ...
Smiling at Gen Z? Better watch your back. What used to be the universal symbol of warmth and joy has taken a sinister turn — at least in the eyes of Gen Z. The classic smiley face emoji now means ...
Brett Smiley, elected mayor of Providence in 2022, takes a business-oriented approach to managing the city's operations. Smiley's background is in business and political campaigns, and he worked for ...