Local News: Ashburn, VA 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

Black Star News Editors

News Widget

Display the Black Star news headlines on your website.

Get the Topix Headlines Widget

Share & bookmark

RSS icon mobile icon

Black Star News

News about Black Star continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

Sunday | Cool Hunting

Link About It: This Week's Picks: Beastie Boys' cover art, 1927...

Beastie Boys' cover art, 1927 London on film, the $325,000 burger and more in our weekly look at the web Researchers in the Netherlands have been working tirelessly to create an entire hamburger's worth of beef muscle tissue from laboratory incubators.

Comment?

Related Topix: Hip-Hop, The Beastie Boys, Black Entertainment, Mos Def

Wed May 08, 2013

Northern Michigan News

Review: Talib Kweli delivers on 5th solo album

Throughout his career, whether in his early collaborative work with fellow Brooklynite Mos Def in Black Star or with the Cincinnati producer-rapper Hi-Tek, Talib Kweli consistently combined his conscious approach to writing with a verbal dexterity marked by a dazzling rapid-fire delivery.

Comment?

Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Mos Def

Mon May 06, 2013

Globe and Mail

Video: In the young man's rap game, Talib Kweli endures

In a genre focused on youth, Talib Kweli has managed to find longevity in rap. Kweli's first major label appearance came 15 years ago on his acclaimed "Black Star" album with Mos Def.

Comment?

Related Topix: Hip-Hop, Black Entertainment, Mos Def

Thu Apr 25, 2013

KXVO

Six Must-Do Philadelphia Festivals This Spring & Beyond

Literature lovers will swoon over the Celebration of Black Writing, one of the oldest African-American literary events in the nation.

Comment?

Related Topix: African-American, Hip-Hop, The Roots, Black Entertainment

Wed Apr 24, 2013

New Hampshire Public Radio -

Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop, Parenting And Honoring The Old School

Talib Kweli has been writing and performing for almost 20 years now - as a solo act and as half of well-received duos that reached a broad audience - and for much of that time he's been pinned with a label that's a relic of a 1990s understanding of hip-hop: "conscious rap." The albums he released with Mos Def as Black Star and with Hi-Tek as ... (more)

Comment?

Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Talib Kweli, Hip-Hop, Mos Def