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How Kanye Helped This Highly Anticipated Summer Movie

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 06.07.2013 | Entertainment
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Let's have a toast for Kanye West. Without him, Frank Ocean's "Super Rich Kids" probably wouldn't playing over the closing credits of Sofia Coppola's ...

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Frank Ocean Closes Out Highly Anticipated Movie

Posted 05.17.2013 | Entertainment
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"The Bling Ring" features unruly teenagers robbing the homes of A-list celebrities, so it's only appropriate that the movie's soundtrack presents a li...

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Frank Ocean Wows Hometown Crowd at New Orleans Jazz Fest

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.05.2013 | Entertainment
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Karen Dalton-Beninato

Frank Ocean returned to New Orleans Saturday, greeting the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival audience with an understated: "A lot has changed." T...

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A$AP Rocky Sounds Off On Closeted Gay Men

The Huffington Post | Glennisha Morgan | Posted 05.15.2013 | Gay Voices
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Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky recently stopped by Washington D.C.'s WKYS 93.9fm radio station. During the interview he discussed his red lipstick controve...

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New Orleans Jazz Festival Highlights Native American Music

AP | STACEY PLAISANCE | Posted 05.03.2013 | Black Voices
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NEW ORLEANS — Mixed in among the jazz, Cajun, blues and zydeco flowing from the stages here are the singing, chanting and drumming of Native Ame...

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The Unfortunate Celebration of Jason Collins' Coming Out

Ernest Owens | Posted 05.01.2013 | Black Voices
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Ernest Owens

For one, the "coming out" dog and pony show that the media puts on now is getting tired. It should not be breaking news in 2013 for anyone to announce their sexuality. I understand how "momentous" and "unprecedented" all of this is, but I do find it exploitative and repetitive as well.

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WINNER!

AP | By JAKE COYLE | Posted 04.30.2013 | Technology
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NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix's groundbreaking "House of Cards" may be the first digital series nominated for a best drama Emmy. But it will start with a ...

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New Orleans Jazz Fest Greeted By Steady Rain

AP | CHEVEL JOHNSON | Posted 04.30.2013 | Black Voices
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NEW ORLEANS -- A steady, sometimes heavy rain pelted fans Sunday at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, but the music flowed on. A soaked Dav...

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New Orleans Jazz Fest To Feature Living Legends

AP | CHEVEL JOHNSON and STACEY PLAISANCE | Posted 04.29.2013 | Black Voices
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NEW ORLEANS -- If there's a theme to this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, it may be living legends. Headliners include B.B. King, Bill...

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The Most Influential African Americans In The World

Posted 04.22.2013 | Black Voices
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Yesterday, TIME released this year's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, and they certainly did not disappoint. Among the magazi...

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Watch Frank Ocean Tour The Globe

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 04.12.2013 | Entertainment
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Justin Bieber wasn't the only artist to post a globe-trotting music video on Friday. He's joined by Frank Ocean, whose "Lost" video also debuted as de...

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Snoop Lion: Homosexuality May Never Be 'Acceptable' In Rap Music

Posted 04.06.2013 | Gay Voices
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The artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg tells NME he doesn't think homosexuality will ever be fully acceptable in rap music. The newly-christened ...

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Depeche Mode & Frank Ocean Link Up

AP | MESFIN FEKADU | Posted 05.26.2013 | Entertainment
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NEW YORK — British electro-pop group Depeche Mode kind of sounds like The Beatles – at least on one track from their new album. "It's a b...

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Rapper A$AP Rocky Sounds Off On 'The Gay Thing' In Hip Hop

The Huffington Post | Glennisha Morgan | Posted 03.25.2013 | Gay Voices
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Harlem native A$AP Rocky recently sounded off on "the gay thing" in hip hop during an interview with Alexander Wang for Interview Magazine. The "Goldi...

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PHOTOS: Frank Ocean Makes His Modeling Debut

The Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 03.20.2013 | Black Voices
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Frank Ocean is making his presence known in the fashion world. The Grammy Award-winning singer was spotted attending several Fashion Week shows, inclu...

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Breaking Through After Coming Out: A Conversation With Spencer Day

Zach Udko | Posted 05.13.2013 | Gay Voices
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Zach Udko

I sat down with Spencer Day to discuss The Mystery of You and jazz's slow stride to acceptance of gay artists.

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Frank Ocean Sued

Posted 03.10.2013 | Entertainment
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Frank Ocean is being sued over his hit single "Lost," AllHipHop.com reports. Ocean is reportedly being sued by Micah Otano, a producer who claims ...

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Clive Davis Praises Frank Ocean And Hip Hop For Embracing HIm

The Huffington Post | Glennisha Morgan | Posted 03.06.2013 | Gay Voices
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Clive Davis chatted at length about Grammy Award winner Frank Ocean's coming out and the hip-hop community's heartwarming reaction in a new interview ...

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Frank Ocean, and Why Blacks Need to Finally Get Over Homophobia

Ernest Owens | Posted 05.06.2013 | Black Voices
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Ernest Owens

While we are celebrating the just the survival of an R&B artist admitting he has had a desire for another man, what we are avoiding is the actual discussion of if we are ready for an actual openly gay black artist in our mainstream world.

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LISTEN: Leaked Frank Ocean Track

Posted 02.24.2013 | Entertainment
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Good news for Frank Ocean fans! Ocean's next album may be without a release date, but an unreleased track from the Grammy-winning singer has leaked, g...

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Mumford & Sons, God And The New Sincerity

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald | Posted 05.16.2013 | Religion
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Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

Say what you will, but after the spectacle died down and the top honor of the night went to Mumford & Sons' album Babel, at least one thing is clear: We are in the midst of the New Sincerity. Being really into something is cool now, even if that something is, well, God.

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Frank Ocean Hard At Work On New Album

rollingstonelogo | Posted 02.20.2013 | Entertainment
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The following article is provided by Rolling Stone. Hot off winning two awards at the 55th Grammys, Frank Ocean is already hard at work on his foll...

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Frank Ocean Reveals Details On New Album

Hip Hop Wired | Posted 02.20.2013 | Black Voices
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Frank Ocean isn't wasting any time folks. His Channel Orange debut earned him a couple of Grammy Awards last week, and the singer is already on to the...

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Gay Songs You Might Not Want To Play On Valentine's Day If You're Single

The Huffington Post | Glennisha Morgan | Posted 02.14.2013 | Gay Voices
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While many will be celebrating love today, there are a ton of single, separated and/or heartbroken people who won’t be. For some, Valentine’s Day ...

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Black-Hearted Valentines

Richard J. Rosendall | Posted 04.16.2013 | Gay Voices
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Richard J. Rosendall

Valentine's Day traditionally brings several pages in newspaper classified sections featuring tiny black hearts followed by romantic messages. Perhaps it's a blessing that print editions are dying -- there's something creepy about all those black hearts, as if they bear a curse.

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