Five Highlights From The Schomburg Center’s 11th Annual Black Comic Book Festival
AURN was on the scene for the Schomburg Center’s 11th Annual Black Comic Book Festival last weekend. It was back in person for the first
AURN was on the scene for the Schomburg Center’s 11th Annual Black Comic Book Festival last weekend. It was back in person for the first
What we’ve seen over the years is that Black culture is reviled, but that’s only until it gets commodified and promoted as someone else’s creation—often with Black women creators being the first to be erased.
AURN chats with Dafina Ward, JD, executive director of the Southern AIDS Coalition, about how its partnerships help to spread awareness about the HIV/AIDS endemic
At AURN we celebrate excellence every day, but we’re turning up because it’s Women’s History Month and we want to make sure phenomenal women in
Women’s contributions to hip-hop are often overlooked or flat out erased. But it’s Women’s History Month and a year-long celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, so
De La Soul’s Dave Jolicoeur (aka Trugoy aka The Dove aka Plug Two) died over the weekend at 54. As we always do for someone
We all know the black guy dies first in movies, right? Actually, that’s not entirely true, but there’s a long history behind why that’s largely
This year kicks off the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, a diasporic collaboration that started in the Bronx, but became a global phenomenon. It’s still a
It’s another end of the year list, because how could we not? They say you won’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where
When Irene Cara died in late November, the tributes came pouring in for the late Academy Award-winning actress, singer, songwriter, and producer. Anika Noni Rose
Christmas music has come a long way throughout the course of its history. According to Billboard, the details around what the first Christmas song was