What Is Ayahuasca? Experience, Benefits, and Side Effects What it is Uses Benefits Risks Bottom line You may have heard stories of people traveling to foreign destinations to experience taking Ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew. Typically, these anecdotes tend to focus on the immediate effects that take place during an AyahuascaContinue Reading
Was Fred Hampton Executed? Seven years after the shootings of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark by the Chicago police, a civil suit reveals the sordid details behind the assassination. By Jeff Gottlieb and Jeff Cohen DECEMBER 25, 1976 Fred Hampton in 1969. (AP Images) Ready To Fight Back? In the predawn hours of DecemberContinue Reading
Quincy Jones Documentary Quincy Jones Has a Story About That Frank Sinatra. Michael Jackson. Ray Charles. Malcolm X. Elon Musk. Truman Capote. Buzz Aldrin. Prince. Tupac. Even Leni Riefenstahl. Quincy Jones has run with them all. Chris Heath stays up late with the 84-year-old music legend who has aContinue Reading
Marcus Garvey, “The Negro Moses” Robert A. Hill – University of California, Los Angeles Marcus Garvey is regarded as the leader of the largest organized mass movement in black history and the progenitor of the modern Black Is Beautiful revival that reached its apogee in the 1960s and 1970s inContinue Reading
Documentary ’13TH’ Argues Mass Incarceration Is An Extension Of Slavery Transcript Filmmaker Ava DuVernay talks about her new documentary, 13TH, which explores the history of race and the criminal justice system in the United States. The film’s title refers to the 13th Amendment. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The awards season is uponContinue Reading
The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, initiating a major cultural and political shift. Although hippies also gathered in major cities across the U.S., Canada and Europe, SanContinue Reading
Anunnaki 101: The Ancient Gods of Sumer Gaia Staff September 6, 2018 4 min read Who were the Anunnaki and why do we care? The short answer is: The Anunnaki were the deity pantheon of the ancient Sumerians. And interest in the Sumerian culture has been active and persistent sinceContinue Reading
‘Coachella: 20 Years In The Desert’ Documentary Bows Via YouTube Originals On Former Opening Day If the world were normal, the opening of the 21st Coachella Music & Arts Festival would be taking place today at noon. For reasons everyone knows, that won’t happen until at least October, presuming health conditions permit. ButContinue Reading
“Where to Invade Next” – Michael Moore (2015) Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next (2015) is another one of his personal cinematic essays about American society, but it has some distinguishing features that make it stand out among his oeuvre. First of all, despite the acclaim that a number ofContinue Reading
MARVIN GAYE JR. (1939-1984) POSTED ONFEBRUARY 13, 2008BY CONTRIBUTED BY: ASHLEY JONES Born on April 2, 1939 in Washington, D.C. Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr. was named after his father, a minister of the apostolic church. From a young age, the church played a large role in Gaye’s music career. He beganContinue Reading
The American Experience Malcolm X: Make It Plain Nearly 30 years after his death, Malcolm X continues to cast a long shadow, his legacy filled with myth and misperception. If “Malcolm X: Make It Plain” does nothing other than live up to its title, it would serve a worthwhile purpose. ButContinue Reading
Nat King Cole crowns a very short list of the most identifiable and memorable voices in American music. This ground breaking American icon’s impact continues to cross the world’s cultural and political boundaries. The story of his life is a study in success in the face of adversity andContinue Reading
How they dealt with sexually transmitted diseases in those days was truly remarkable… The ‘soiled doves’ of the Wild West: Photos reveal the everyday lives of prostitutes in the brothels of the American Frontier Brothels flourished in the Old West as young men flooded the frontier in search of work,Continue Reading
“If I cant change the people around me, I change the people around me.” Chuck DContinue Reading
Pablo Picasso is probably the most important figure of 20th century, in terms of art, and art movements that occurred over this period. Before the age of 50, the Spanish born artist had become the most well known name in modern art, with the most distinct style and eye for artisticContinue Reading
The Radiant Child Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential African-American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. Basquiat’s paintings are largely responsible for elevating graffiti artists into the realm of the New York gallery scene., his spray-painted crowns and scribbled words, referenced everything from his Haitian and Puerto Rican heritageContinue Reading
We mourn this truly “remarkable” human being. Encouraged by her mother, Horne joined the NAACP at a young age and later the National Council of Negro Women. She refused to perform during WWII for segregated audiences and later joined Eleanor Roosevelt to abolish lynching. In the 1950s, she was black-listedContinue Reading
