[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs2Uw6nIZVs&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Late last year, jazz saxophonist James Moody passed away. Here’s Moody in 1989–live with Dizzy

[vodpod id=Video.5478025&w=500&h=411&fv=] Letta Mbulu performing “Music Man” on the American TV show, Soul Train, in 1977.

Everyone wants in on the revolution in Egypt. Video for American rappers Jasiri X and M-1

NEWSWEEK [magazine]’s Christopher Dickey chats with [Nawal El-Saadawi]the octogenarian author and activist who refused to go

Following the release of “Love and Death”, Ebo Taylor is touring in Europe these days. Although

http://vimeo.com/18671156 Zimbabwean rapper/MC/poet UpMost aka My Brother’s Keeper shares his ‘Lost for Words’, recorded in Harare

The writer Edouard Glissant has died. Glissant, a native of Martinique, citizen of France, was known

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvCjZ6gThyY&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for the Dominican merengue singer, Rita Indiana‘s “El Juidero,” the title track of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPeN3ZNCOE Google’s new Art Project makes use of the street-view technology to take us by the

Dated, but still worth a look. Interview with the 2010 Caine Prize finalists.

Dutch website profiles Harlem-based singer Somi (of Rwandan and Ugadan descent, raised in downstate Illinois).

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7-T50Lr3A&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Salif Keita performs his standard “Folon” live on Dutch TV in March 2010.

Novelist (and New School professor) Siddhartha Deb in an interview with Jeffrey Errington for The Quarterly

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yl5LaocojO4&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The music video for “Die Heuwels Fantasies” by South African (Afrikaans) band, Noorderlig. I am