[Asakaa Boys at Black Star Line Festival / Photo by Christian Saint] “My experience at Black Star Line Festival was amazing. The atmosphere was electric, from the music lineup down to the ...

Hosted by Chance the Rapper and his close friend and collaborator Vic Mensa, the inaugural Black Star Line Festival — a week of talks, parties, skating, and music in Accra, Ghana — was dreamt ...

Through the Black Star Line Festival in Accra, Mensa is using art and music to engage Black people in cultural conversations across the globe. In 1922, Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line was a ...

“We don’t have no movies about Marcus Garvey and the Black Star Line,” Chance the Rapper tells me about the influential Pan-Africanist leader and his short-lived steamship company designed ...

The MC founded the Ghana-set Black Star Line Festival in 2023. Since 1998, AllHipHop.com has pioneered delivering Hip-Hop news. Get our daily email for exclusive, breaking news, and weekly digests ...

Star Line draws inspiration from Marcus Garvey's historic Black Star Line, a shipping company aimed at connecting the global Black diaspora in the early 1900s. Chance elaborated on this during a ...

Check the full list of Tony Awards 2025 winners and nominees by category. From Best Musical to Best Actor, see who took home ...

the Black Star Line, to get Americans back to Africa,” Kewli told NPR. “[That] is the sort of beginning of Pan-Africanism and a push for reparations. So with Black Star, we’ve always been ...

Tens of thousands of people have poured into Ghana's iconic Black Star Square of Independence to witness the maiden edition of the Black Star Line Festival. The event - which took place in the ...

“Black culture is a collective culture,” she said. “Line dancing is cool because it ... legendary basketball star and sports analyst Grant Hill, decided to learn it.

Both “hold fast to dreams,” as Langston Hughes exhorted, as well as to the line drives they dive to catch. In BLACK STAR (Little, Brown, 384 pp., $17.99, ages 10 and up), the second book in ...