Feb 20, 2013

It has happened to all of us. We hit “Send” on our cell phone then almost instantaneously realize we shouldn’t have even sent that text. Well now there’s an app available to iPhone & Android users that will fix that issue. Silent Circle allows users to “burn” messages on phones (both the sender’s and receiver’s). [...]

Jan 23, 2013

I think that HBCU’s are sort of a rare-breed of institutions that you won’t quite understand unless you’ve attended one. For many first-generation, or lower-income students it provides a sense of community/family, special attention, and strong sense of self-identity. While PWI’s can provide the same experience, it can be a little more difficult for some African-Americans to get the attention they [...]

Jun 18, 2012

Shame on you if you don’t already have Esperanza Spalding’s latest album, Chamber Music Society, in your possession. It’s been a very successful year thus far for the Jazz enthusiast. Earlier this month she stopped in KCRW’s Santa Monica studios to perform “Smile Like That”. The performance may surprise you, evolving from the expected Jazz [...]

Mar 21, 2012

We’ve featured the Seattle duo, TheeSatisfaction on our site a couple times, each track a little different than the last. Well…the wait is over, and we finally get a First Listen of their LP “Awe Naturale.” You can listen to  28 minutes, 4 seconds of the goodness in its entirety below exclusively on NPR. My [...]

Feb 07, 2012

On May, 11th 1961 Malcom X spoke to students at Brown University. 50 years later, the recording of the speech has just been released. Why the hold up? The speech was in the possession of the late Richard Holbrooke, editor of the student paper at the time of the speech. Take a listen to the [...]

Jan 06, 2012

The lecture is one of the oldest forms of education there is. “Before printing someone would read the books to everybody who would copy them down,” says Joe Redish, a physics professor at the University of Maryland. But lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique and now that information is everywhere, some say it’s [...]