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Spike Lee's 40 Acres Opens Its Vault for Fort Greene Pop-Up

Spike Lee opens his Fort Greene headquarters vault for a rare pop-up sale featuring original film memorabilia, with music by DJ Spinna this Saturday.

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Wednesday Notes for August 6th, 2025

Wednesday's digest for August 6: James Beard winner Kwame Onwuachi opens Las' Lap Miami at The Daydrift hotel in South Beach—the second location of his New York rum bar concept—plus this week's reads.

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Tuesday Notes for August 5th, 2025

Tuesday's notes cover Spike Lee and Denzel Washington's fifth collaboration, Metro Boomin's summer tape, and a few other things worth knowing on August 5th.

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Spike Lee and Denzel Washington Reunite for Crime Thriller "Highest 2 Lowest"

Spike Lee and Denzel Washington are back together for their fifth film, Highest 2 Lowest — a modern crime thriller inspired by Akira Kurosawa's High and Low.

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Monday Notes for August 4th, 2025

Monday's notes lead with the Black unemployment rate topping 7% as the White House defends removing a labor data official — plus the rest of August 4th's cultural briefing.

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Friday Notes for August 1st, 2025

Friday's notes cover Kamala Harris's post-election TV diet, Metro Boomin's A Futuristic Summa drop, and Bad Bunny joining Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS in Formula 1.

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Wednesday Notes for July 30th, 2025

Wednesday's notes lead with a new collection of Okwui Enwezor's writings from Duke University Press — essential reading on curatorial thinking and cultural scale.

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Tuesday Notes for July 29th, 2025

Tuesday, July 29: Philadelphia honors Teddy Pendergrass with a street renaming, BlackStar Film Festival opens in Philly, and Supreme x Nike Air Force 1 Fall 2025 drops.

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BlackStar Film Festival 2025: Celebrating Cinema for Liberation

The 14th annual BlackStar Film Festival returns to Philadelphia July 31–August 3, 2025 under the theme ‘Cinema for Liberation,’ centering Black, Brown, and Indigenous filmmakers.

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Monday Notes for July 28th, 2025

Monday, July 28: Ghana mourns highlife legend Daddy Lumba at 60, Nike KD 18 Halloween drops, and Shedeur Sanders addresses his two speeding citations at Browns camp.

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John Hope Franklin: Pioneering Historian and Civil Rights Scholar

John Hope Franklin (1915–2009) stands as one of America’s most distinguished historians, reshaping how the nation understood its racial past and lending his scholarship to the civil rights movement.

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Make My Cake: Harlem's Sweet Southern Heritage in Every Bite

Make My Cake has been serving Southern-style confections rooted in Mississippi and Alabama family recipes from the heart of Harlem for over 25 years — a community institution with global reach.