Art & Literature

On Thursday, September 21, 2017 at The Royal American, local culture curators Ill Vibe the Tribe is back with the second installation of ‘Art Binge’! Staying true to the roots of bringing the vibe this Art Market will feature the works of Fart.PDF of Columbia, Maya Ajani of Conway, and Mado Smith and Destini Jihada of…

Angel Harriott, Charleston native and Burke High School alumna, recently published a textbook and workbook for children to teach them about a rich legacy of African history and contributions prior to enslavement. In this first volume of the series, “Journey to Nubia and Kemet: Exploring African History, Culture and Contributions”, Harriott uses a compilation of…

Charleston, SC’s first poet laureate, Marcus Amaker, and the City of Charleston’s Office of Cultural Affairs have announced the schedule of Free Verse: Charleston’s first poetry festival. The festival’s calendar of events includes several highlights: a youth poetry slam at The Gaillard Center (presented by The Charleston Gaillard Education Initiative) on Sept. 29, a poetry…

Kwame Alexander, New York Times-bestselling author and 2015 Newberry Medal recipient, will be the featured speaker at this year’s Black Ink: A Charleston African American Book Festival. Alexander will join at least 50 black authors and hundreds of readers for the second annual festival on September 23, 2017, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Main…

Celebrated international artist and City of Charleston Ambassador for the Arts, Jonathan Green is pleased to announce Jonathan Green’s “Requiem for Rice”, presented in collaboration with the International African American Museum. Jonathan Green’s “Requiem for Rice” is a musical tribute to honor and recognize posthumously the scores of enslaved Africans upon whom the infrastructure of…

The Annual 2017 Florida Authors and Publishers Association Presidential Book Awards recognized “The Legendary Florida A & M University Marching Band, The History Of The Hundred,” by Curtis Inabinett, Jr., in the categories of Adult Non-Fiction, and Biography as a Silver, and Bronze medal winner. Hosted by the Florida Authors and Publishers Association, this prestigious national…

Surviving family members of victims from the Emanuel AME South Carolina Church shooting have spoken out in support of a short independent film entitled “Broken” by La Trycee Fowler. “Broken” follows the lives of two children in a small Southern Mississippi town who witness a massacre at their church, leaving one of them orphaned. The…

By Emily Upshur, cofc.edu Two College of Charleston students have taken their classroom lessons out into the real world, launching a non-profit to support new musicians. Started by students Cody Dixon and Julian Harrell, S.O.U.L. (Sounds of Universal Love) Power Productions is essentially a record label without the for-profit mission. Its primary goal is to enable…

Keith Jett (FKA Gary Keith Brown II) has launched a new comic book series entitled Legends of War. Since leaving Georgia Tech, Keith has put all his energy into bringing diversity to the comic book action hero genre as a creator, artist, and writer.  He speaks heavily on the need for diversity in cartoons, comic…