ARTS, STYLE & ENTERTAINMENT This is YOUR lifestyle gallery – of what is new and what is happening in the U.S. And the Black World, not excluding Africa. For this section if you have any news we should know about – let us know at: [email protected] Next Narrative Africa (NNA), a multimedia production company with focus on Africa will host its inaugural event titled: “The Bridge” Friday, September 22 in celebration of United Nations General Assembly in New York at The Apollo Theater.  It aims to build an ecosystem to support African content creation and advance economic progress.  This celebration of the collective power of the global Black diaspora to share African stories for global impact will be headlined by award-winning African artist, Flavour who

ARTS, STYLE & ENTERTAINMENT This is YOUR lifestyle gallery – of what is new and what is happening in the U.S. And the Black World, not excluding Africa. For this section if you have any news we should know about – let us know at: [email protected] Mahalia Jackson performing in Copenhagen, Denmark, in April 1961. Lennart Steen/JP Jazz Archive/Getty Images By Bev-Freda Jackson Every now and then, a voice can matter. Mahalia Jackson had one of them. Known around the world as the “Queen of Gospel,” Jackson used her powerful voice to work in the Civil Rights Movement. Starting in the 1950s, she traveled with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. throughout the South and heard him preach in Black churches about a vision that only he

ARTS, STYLE & ENTERTAINMENT This is YOUR lifestyle gallery – of what is new and what is happening in the U.S. And the Black World, not excluding Africa. For this section if you have any news we should know about – let us know at: [email protected] Over the centuries the Bible has been translated and retranslated, a process which has sometimes generated varying interpretations of its content. Black characters figure in diverse books of the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments. Yet someone described as a Nubian in one book may be referred to as a Moor, an Ethiopian, a Kushite or a Midianite in another. One confusing story of this type concerns Moses’ wife (or wives) who

ARTS, STYLE & ENTERTAINMENT This is YOUR lifestyle gallery – of what is new and what is happening in the U.S. And the Black World, not excluding Africa. For this section if you have any news we should know about – let us know at: [email protected] By David Gordon  Manhattan Theatre Club has announced full casting for the world premiere of Jocelyn Bioh’s Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, beginning performances September 12 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in advance of an October 3 opening. Whitney White directs. Heading the cast will be Grammy nominee Somi Kakoma (Dreaming Zenzile) as Jaja, alongside Brittany Adebumola, Maechi Aharanwa, Rachel Christopher, Kalyne Coleman, Lakisha May, Nana Mensah, Michael Oloyede, Dominique Thorne, and Zenzi Williams. On the creative team