When you think of cities that have produced some of the greatest basketball players to lace up a pair of sneakers, New York and Chicago seem to be at the forefront of the memory banks. But most overlooked is Baltimore, MD, a metropolis that has been a breeding ground of...

20 January 2009.

This is the day that I saw an abundance of flashing lights.

The first set of lights was for our new president, Barack Obama, as he and his beautiful family made their way through the seas of roaring Americans in the bitter cold to their new residence...

If Bob Marley and U2 ever had a chance to record a song together, I'm pretty sure that rasta-rock is the direction their respective guitar strings would have roamed. But thankfully for Mojo Morgan, the creation of this genre lies in his gifted hands.

Born in Brooklyn, New York,...

According to the Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support, there are more than half a million children in foster care today. Shalita O'Neale, herself a product of the system, was determined to help create a haven for foster care children yearning for a nurturing hand to help...

It all started with a trip back to his father's birthplace.

Vietnam.

That's where Arnaud "Onra" Bernard found the inspiration for his signature sound. After spending time with children at an orphanage in the Vietnamese city of Hue, the Parisian producer was so moved by the experience that he rushed...

It wasn't too long ago that Allen Iverson was the face of the NBA, for reasons that were tailor made to everyone's perception of him. To me, he was one of the greatest offensive minds to ever step foot on the hardwood -- an unfathomable hybrid of Nate Archibald's size-defying...

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As the New Year skies glow fresh with the promises of a new president, those skies will also be hovering over a regime of young black leaders who may one day follow in the remarkable footsteps of Barack Obama. Influential names such as Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, New York...

Today's gangsta rap ideals have fueled droves of young imitators to replicate a life of digital gunplay in their bedroom studios and sell it for 99 cents a pop on iTunes. But the only difference is that those rappers relaxing in their cul-de-sacs anticipate another day to create m16-inducing wet...

I wrote this piece on the eve of my beautiful grandmother's birthday. My grandmother, who turned 77 years young on November 6th, still walks the streets of Harlem on her daily outings as vigorously as she did the day she migrated to the Big Apple from her hometown of Goldsboro,...