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Black Music Month: Songs To Add To Your Juneteenth Playlist

No Black celebration is complete without music. With Juneteenth occurring during Black Music Month, it only makes sense to share a playlist full of music that champions Black culture, celebrates our past, present, and future, and gets the party going! Keep scrolling to see what songs you should add to your Juneteenth playlist. “BLACK PARADE” — Beyoncé This song screams Black culture. Beyoncé is spitting about Ankh charms, “motherland drip,” going back to her roots in the South, natural hair, […]

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Common Honored By Robert De Niro For His Social Justice Efforts

Common has spent the majority of his music career doubling as an activist for numerous causes including social justice. Now the veteran MC and esteemed actor is getting the recognition he deserves. On Wednesday, June 15, the Chicago native received the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award from the Tribeca Film Festival. The co-founder of the festival Robert De Niro presented Common with the award himself during a special ceremony. The Grammy award-winning rapper is the second recipient of […]

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June 16 In Hip-Hop History: Tupac Shakur Is Born

Tupac Amaru Shakur was one of the most celebrated yet controversial rappers in Hip-hop history. If he were still with us today, the prolific MC would've celebrated his 51st birthday. On June 16, 1971, 2Pac, born Lesane Parish Crooks, was brought into the world by his mother Afeni Shakur (fka Alice Faye Williams) and his biological father Billy Garland in East Harlem, N.Y.. Both of his parents were active members of the Black Panther Party. A few months after his […]

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