Rosa Parks Honored in Commemorative Stamp on 100th Birthday

January 23, 2013 | Posted by Kevin Webb Rosa Parks will be honored with a commemorative stamp on what would have been her 100th birthday, Feb. 4. The U.S. Postal Service will host a pair of unveiling ceremonies for the stamp at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, and the Henry …

Tavis, Cornel And Black America

With President Barack Obama sworn in, it’s time to return to a more pressing matter: The bitter in-house dispute between Tavis Smiley, Cornel West and half of black America. One would think those long-simmering tensions would begin subsiding now that the first black president’s final term is freshly secured. Yet the very public debate over …

African American Art – My Opinon

African-American art has so become a part of the cultural landscape that there are very few, regardless of personal preferences, who don’t at least own one piece. What is African-American art? The technical definition is; creations which remain a stationary representation of both African American life as well as expressions of ancestral origin. Would you …

Man Accused Of Vandalizing 1929 Picasso Surrenders

HOUSTON — A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in an act caught on cellphone video surrendered Tuesday to federal marshals at the U.S.-Mexico border. Uriel Landeros, 22, of Houston, turned himself over to marshals at the international bridge near McAllen, Texas. “I don’t regret anything that I’ve done,” Landeros told KPRC-TV …

It Ain’t Over: From A Blank Canvas They Created A $20 Million Empire

One of the reasons I started my website was so that women could have a place to come together and dream. We women need to know that we don’t have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing us — that there is always time to start a new dream. This week’s …

Oscar Predictions 2013: Previewing The Academy Awards Nominations

Welcome to For Your Consideration, HuffPost Entertainment’s weekly breakdown of all things Oscar. Between now and Feb. 25, 2013, executive arts and entertainment editor Michael Hogan and entertainment editor Christopher Rosen will chat about awards season and which films will make the most noise at the 85th annual Academy Awards. Rosen & Hogan: It’s all …

Polaroid Fotobar Stores Designed To Print ‘Trapped’ Photos From Instagram, Smartphones

  Retro, meet retro. Polaroid is planning to open at least ten “experimental” retail Fotobar stores, where customers can edit and print photos taken on their smartphone and stored by services like Instagram, Facebook and Picasa. The first Polaroid Fotobar is set to open in Delray Beach, Fla., next month and will be outfitted with …

Warhol At Auction: The Pop Artist Reigns As World’s Biggest Seller In 2012 (PHOTOS)

The auction results are in — pop artist extraordinaire Andy Warhol has snagged the position as the world’s biggest seller at auction last year. The Campbell Soup connoisseur raked in $380.3 million in sales in 2012, according to figures compiled by Artnet for Bloomberg News. Warhol’s “Double Elvis” fetched a whopping $37 million, and his …

Richard Parsons, Ex-Time Warner CEO, Leads Drive to Restore Historic Harlem Hotspot

This old dive in Harlem has been shuttered for about as long as it had been open. Yet Minton’s Playhouse will always be known as the cradle of bebop, where the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker jammed into the night. Money woes long ago left the doors locked and the electric …