Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks, the First African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature
Gwendolyn Brooks wrote hundreds of poems during her lifetime. She had more than twenty books published. She is widely known for using poetry to increase understanding about black culture in America. Gwendolyn Brooks wrote many poems about being black during the 1940s and 1950s. Her poems described conditions among the poor, racial inequality and drug […]
Tony Allen, the legendary Afrobeat Drummer, dead at 79
Tony Allen, the pioneering drummer who defined Afrobeat during his tenure with Fela Kuti, died Thursday evening at 79. Rolling Stone cornfimed the musician’s death through his manager, Eric Trosser. Allen, a Nigerian, was taken to Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris where he died of abdominal aortic aneurysm. As a member of Kuti’s band […]