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HuffPost Review: Michael Jackson's Vision, Plus A Conversation With Brazilian Sensation Bebel Gilberto

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, The Jacksons, Magic Johnson, Julianna Neves, Bebel Gilberto, Prince, Eat Pray Love, Closer, Martin Scorsese, Gal Costa, Vincent Price, Bjork, George Wendt, Steven Spielberg, The Mills Brothers, Lisa Marie Presley, Gilberto Gil, David Francis, Ella Fitzgerald, Joao Gilberto, The Jackson 5, Entourage, Iman, Billie Holiday, Sex in the City, Bossa Nova, Simon & Garfunkel, John Travolta, Chris Tucker, Paul McCartney, Naomi Campbell, Nip/Tuck, Amoeba Records, Michael Jordan, Eddie Murphy, Kings of Convenience, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Marlon Brando, Macaulay Culkin, Lionel Hampton, Carlinhos Brown, Wesley Snipes, Miucha, Sadé, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

This 35-track, triple disc DVD collection is such an important and significant pop-culture package that it might scare your unsuspecting holiday recipient into thinking you're saying something more than merely Happy Whatever.

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Angelique Kidjo and "The Sound of the Drum"

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Benin, Babatunde Olatunji, Batonga Foundation, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Official World Cup Kick-Off Concert, Bono, Buena Vista Social Club, Aretha Franklin, South Africa, African Drums and Chants, Gilberto Gil, Celia Cruz, West Africa, Entertainment News, Carnegie Hall, James Brown, John Legend, The Sound of the Drum, Unicef, Sacred Instrument, Stax, Roy Hargove, Youssou N?Dour, African Music, Omara Portuondo, New York City, Dianne Reeves, Angelique Kidjo, Memphis, Education for African Girls, Soccer, Grammy Award, Jimi Hendrix, The Beat, Kompa, Grammy Awards, Oyo, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

Beninoise singer Angelique Kidjo has had a spectacular year. In April she released her newest album, OYO, where she revisited the music that inspired ...

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FILM: Is Brazilian Film The Future?

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latin America, Films, Vik Muniz, Sao Paulo, Rio Film Festival, South America, Dzi Croquettes, Sao Paulo Art Biennale, Brazil, Lauri Lyons, Movies, Reidy Building Utopia, Cinema, Art, Filmmaking, Film Festivals, Rio De Janeiro, Dance, Museum of Modern Art, Premiere Brazil, Brasil, Terras, Social Justice, Terra, Peru, Urban Planning, Flag an American Story, Recycling, Maya Da Rin, Tropicalia, Recolumbia, Alfonso Reidy, Revolutions, Performance Art, Flag International, Ana Maria Magalhaes, Architecture, Moma, Social Activism, Gilberto Gil, Future, New York Art, New York, Museums, Urban, The Waste Land, Gay, Columbia, Colombia, Arts News
Lauri Lyons

This year's Premiere Brazil film festival hosted by the Museum of Modern Art and the Rio Film Festival produced a line up of films that can best be described as the art of social activism.

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Countdown to Carnaval... Madonna Does the Supersize Samba

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Michele Obama, Brazil, Globalism, Lula, Madonna, Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Supersize, Success for Kids, Eike Batista, Jose Serra, Caetano Veloso, Favelas, Sergio Cabral, Tropicalismo, Gilberto Gil, Get Moving, Rio De Janeiro, World News
Eric Ehrmann

Tall and tan and young and lovely is getting harder to find because Brazil is adopting American-style bad eating habits that are driving teletubby statistics off the charts.

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Afro-Brazilian History, Beats and Culture

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black History Month, African-American Experience, Middle Passage, Brazil Slavery, Afro-Brazilian Culture, Afro-Brazilian History, African-American Culture, Slavery, Lauri Lyons, Carnaval, Carnival, Brazil, Brasil, Nigeria, Ghana, Mozambique, Portuguese, Congo, Central Africa, Benin, Africa, Portugal, Amerindians, African Diaspora, Angola, South America, Rio De Janiero, Favelas, Samba, Easter, Afro-Brazilians, Black Orpheus, Academy Awards, City of God, Favela Rising, Cannes Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Premiere Brazil, Minister of Culture, London, Dictators, Tropicalia, Exile, Caetano Veloso, Culture Points, Latin American Politics, Vargas, Political Prisoners, Gilberto Gil, Black Pride, Americas, Black Consciousness, Ile Aiye, Rio Carnaval Parade, Moviemento Negro, Brazilian Art, Latin Music, Baile Funk, Art, Latin Art, Brazilian Music, Hip-Hop, African Music, Brazilian Hip-Hop, Turntables, Microphones, Music Samplers, B-Boys, Sao Paulo, Educardo Fm, Salvador De Bahia, Bahia, Evolucao Hip Hop, South Bronx, Afros, Bling, Breakdancing, Radio, Olympic Games, Bronx, Braids, Santos Futebol Clube, Football, Pele, Soccer, Nigerian Civil War, Lagos, New York Cosmos, Amazon Jungle, African American Photographers, Rhythmic Uprising, Beyond Impanema, President Lula Da Silva, Cricket World Cup, Flag an American Story, Flag International, Sacatar Foundation, West-Africa, The Spirits of Itaparica, Itaparica, 2014 World Cup, Brazilian Carnaval, Photography, 2016 Olympics, Music, Huffington Post, Photojournalism, Girl From Impanema, Bossa Nova, Copacabana Beach, Rappers, Urban Music, Innercity Youth, Africana Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Social Advocacy, Southern Hemisphere, World News
Lauri Lyons

While Africa and America are often recognized as the book ends of the African Diaspora, there is an additional link in the Middle Passage that is less publicized, but no less important.

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