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Noname (AKA Fatimah Warner) gained a cult-like following after appearing as “Noname Gypsy” on early Chance the Rapper mixtapes.

Noname’s Room 25 finds intersection between poetry and rap

Phillip Pyle September 26, 2018

Over two years after her debut album, Noname finally released Room 25 on Sept. 14. Born as Fatimah  Nyeema Warner, Noname is now 27 and has come a long way since her 2016 album Telefone. In Room 25,...

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Crystal Moselles latest coming-of-age film features a group of young female skateboarders in New York City.

‘Skate Kitchen’ explores sisterhood

Wendy Hernandez September 19, 2018

Crystal Moselle’s Skate Kitchen veers sharply off the path of romantic comedies. It ditches type-casting in favor of a documentary and coming-of-age hybrid for an in-depth look at women in skater subculture....

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Bi-racial Sainabo Seys new album Im a Dream unapologetically explores themes of race and gender.

Sainabo Sey’s new album shapes the exciting era of femme soul-pop

Hannah Tager September 19, 2018

Drawing on both her Gambian and Swedish roots, Seinabo Sey has scraped away a little of Scandinavia’s white washing with her new album, I’m a Dream. Sey found fame after the Norwegian D.J. Kygo remixed...

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This film by Robert Reiner has a good story to tell, but unfortunately comes off as derivative.

‘Shock and Awe’ underwhelms

Mitchell Morris September 19, 2018

Shock and Awe, which opened at Images last week, is a new film by director Rob Reiner that tells the true story of the courageous journalists who challenged the narrative propagated by the George W. Bush...

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