2/10/21 O&A NYC WILDIN OUT WEDNESDAY: Batty Boy (2020)

Batty Boy is an uncompromising short film exploring the complexities of the black gay coming out experience through the eyes of young Dolcie a Black British gay boy of Caribbean heritage as he faces the struggles of fitting in with a community posing strong cultural homophobic beliefs. Continue reading

5/8/22 O&A NYC GOSPEL SUNDAY: Tramaine Hawkins – “Amazing Grace”

Tramaine Hawkins in a Rare Performance Live at The Symphony sings Amazing Grace. Continue reading

1/31/21 O&A NYC GOSPEL SUNDAY: Mahalia Jackson Documentary

Mahalia Jackson set the standard for gospel music and the Christain lifestyle. The undisputed queen of one of America’s most endearing music art forms born from the songs of sorrow, joy and praise of the African slaves.  Continue reading

1/27/21 O&A NYC WALESTYLEZ HIP HOP WEDNESDAY: Busta Rhymes – Czar (Remix)ft. CJ, M.O.P.

Busta Rhymes is a Hip Hop artist, singer, record producer, actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the moniker Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George Buster Rhymes.He has received 11 Grammy Award nominations for his work. Continue reading

1/27/21 O&A NYC WITH WaleStylez MOVIE TRAILER: Chopped & Screwed: The Final Mixtape (Trailer)

By Adewale Adekanbi Jr

CHOPPED AND SCREWED: The Final Mixtape will explore the history of DJ Screw, his signature sound, his struggles with police brutality and racism, and his impact on contemporary music and culture 20 years after his death. The film gives a first-hand account of Screw’s life from the people closest to the icon and various artists and tastemakers influenced by him today. Continue reading

1/18/21 O&A NYC SONG OF THE DAY: Jennifer Hudson Performs Someday We’ll All be Free at the Obama White House

In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement is a concert hosted by President and Mrs. Obama featuring songs from the Civil Rights Movement as well as readings from famous Civil Rights speeches and writings with participants including Bob Dylan, Jennifer Hudson, Smokey Robinson, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and more. Continue reading

1/17/21 O&A NYC GOSPEL SUNDAY: Purlie (1981) | Robert Guillaume, Sherman Hemsley, Melba Moore

Purlie is a musical with a book by Ossie Davis, Phillip Rose and Peter Udell, lyrics by Udell and music by Gary Geld and choreography by Louis Johnson. It is based on Davis’s 1961 plaPurlie Victorious, which was later made into the 1963 film Gone Are the Days! and which included many of the original Broadway cast, including Davis, Ruby Dee, Alan Alda, Beah Richards, Godfrey Cambridge and Sorrell Booke. 

Purlie is set in an era when Jim Crow laws still were in effect in the American South. Its focus is on the dynamic traveling preacher Purlie Victorious Judson, who returns to his small Georgia town hoping to save Big Bethel, the community’s church, and emancipate the cotton pickers who work on oppressive Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee’s platation. With the assistance of Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins, Purlie hopes to pry loose from Cotchipee an inheritance due his long-lost cousin and use the money to achieve his goals. Also playing a part in Purlie’s plans is Cotchipee’s son Charlie, who ultimately proves to be far more fair-minded than his Simon Legree –like father and who saves the church from destruction with an act of defiance that has dire consequences for the tyrannical Cap’n.

Purlie is a musical with a book by Ossie Davis, Phillip Rose and Peter Udell

 

1/15/21 O&A NYC SHALL WE DANCE FRIDAY: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater- Chroma, Grace, Takademe, Revelations (2015)


Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs Revelations, Chroma, Grace, and Takademe in this 2015 rebroadcast. Continue reading

1/12/20 O&A NYC GOING BACK TO AFRICA WITH WALESTYLEZ: WizKid – Ginger ft. Burna Boy

Made in Lagos is the fourth studio album by Afrobeat artist WizKid. Nigerian-Afrobeat artist Burna Boy was featured with his partner in crime Wizkid on a new music track Ginger. Continue reading