ABC News Studios’ Emmy-winning series Soul of a Nation will honor the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with a one-hour special called Hip-Hop @ 50: Rhythms, Rhymes & Reflections – A Soul of a Nation Presentation.
Master P, Mc Lyte, Fat Joe, The Lox, Coi Leray and others will be featured in the program, to be hosted by Angie Martinez, the veteran radio personality known as The Voice of New York. Martinez will executive produce the special alongside ABC’s Catherine McKenzie.
Hip-Hop @ 50 will air on ABC on June 19 at 10 p.m. Et. It will stream on Hulu the following day.
Master P, Mc Lyte and Angie Martinez
The special, which also celebrates Juneteenth and Black Music Month, will feature “thought-provoking conversations with artists, producers, executives and changemakers in the industry” and “detail the history of hip-hop, providing insight into its origins, growth and evolution over the last 50 years and where things stand today,...
Master P, Mc Lyte, Fat Joe, The Lox, Coi Leray and others will be featured in the program, to be hosted by Angie Martinez, the veteran radio personality known as The Voice of New York. Martinez will executive produce the special alongside ABC’s Catherine McKenzie.
Hip-Hop @ 50 will air on ABC on June 19 at 10 p.m. Et. It will stream on Hulu the following day.
Master P, Mc Lyte and Angie Martinez
The special, which also celebrates Juneteenth and Black Music Month, will feature “thought-provoking conversations with artists, producers, executives and changemakers in the industry” and “detail the history of hip-hop, providing insight into its origins, growth and evolution over the last 50 years and where things stand today,...
- 6/14/2023
- by Mesfin Fekadu
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: NowThis Next, an event spearheaded by Discovery-backed digital news brand NowThis, will air this month as a one-hour primetime special on cable network OWN.
The lineup of speakers will include Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Eva Longoria and Amanda Gorman.
NowThis, which is part of Group Nine Media, is reteaming with women-focused non-profit Vital Voices and Procter & Gamble for the event. The air date on OWN, which is part of Discovery’s network portfolio, is Monday, October 25. Discovery has been a stakeholder for several years in Group Nine, whose digital brands also include Thrillist, The Dodo, Seeker and Pop Sugar.
This year’s second edition of NowThis Next will focus on the role of women leaders in “creating a more equitable and just world,” according to organizers. Topics to be discussed include mental health, racial justice, climate justice, women and girls’ rights around the world, with a special focus on Afghanistan.
The lineup of speakers will include Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Eva Longoria and Amanda Gorman.
NowThis, which is part of Group Nine Media, is reteaming with women-focused non-profit Vital Voices and Procter & Gamble for the event. The air date on OWN, which is part of Discovery’s network portfolio, is Monday, October 25. Discovery has been a stakeholder for several years in Group Nine, whose digital brands also include Thrillist, The Dodo, Seeker and Pop Sugar.
This year’s second edition of NowThis Next will focus on the role of women leaders in “creating a more equitable and just world,” according to organizers. Topics to be discussed include mental health, racial justice, climate justice, women and girls’ rights around the world, with a special focus on Afghanistan.
- 10/12/2021
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Deja Foxx was unpacking in her dorm room to start her sophomore year at Columbia University when Meena Harris Dm’d her about working on her Aunt Kamala’s presidential campaign. “I just started repacking,” Foxx says, laughing. “I wasn’t going to sit in a classroom and talk about Plato and Aristotle when I had skills that could make a difference.”
The youngest staffer on Kamala Harris’ campaign, Foxx, at 19, was already a seasoned activist, driven by her own experience with homelessness and her struggle to access birth control growing up in Tucson,...
The youngest staffer on Kamala Harris’ campaign, Foxx, at 19, was already a seasoned activist, driven by her own experience with homelessness and her struggle to access birth control growing up in Tucson,...
- 2/24/2021
- by Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
Rolling Stone recently featured some of the youth activists inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests and how they are using social media to lead the fight for change in their communities. In this video companion to our Year in Review article, we sat down with the photographers behind the story.
“The thing that made this summer particularly difficult was it was difficult to separate myself from what was happening in the streets,” Vanessa Charlot, a photographer capturing Miami and St. Louis, tells Rolling Stone. “As a black woman, I...
“The thing that made this summer particularly difficult was it was difficult to separate myself from what was happening in the streets,” Vanessa Charlot, a photographer capturing Miami and St. Louis, tells Rolling Stone. “As a black woman, I...
- 12/30/2020
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Khalea Edwards didn’t believe it at first. Someone on a text chain of organizers from Occupy City Hall Stl, a movement she helped lead this past summer calling for the resignation of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, informed the group in November that Krewson was retiring. Edwards wanted proof. Then Krewson made the announcement herself. “We spent the whole day in shock,” Edwards says. “We were crying.”
“Protesting works. Pro-tes-ting works,” the 21-year-old says of the bombshell from the mayor, who in June had broadcast the names and addresses...
“Protesting works. Pro-tes-ting works,” the 21-year-old says of the bombshell from the mayor, who in June had broadcast the names and addresses...
- 12/14/2020
- by Ryan Bort and Kimberly Aleah
- Rollingstone.com
Since May 2020, youth organizers across the country have been mobilizing against police brutality and working for systemic change in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. Some of them had organized for social justice before, but many of them took to the streets for the first time and without an organized plan. Across Instagram posts, Zoom calls and iMessages, these youth organizers used social media to launch some of the largest Black Lives Matter protests in the country. In the first episode of Rolling Stone’s “Youth Organizers” video series,...
- 10/7/2020
- by Kimberly Aleah
- Rollingstone.com
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