FILM: ‘Beat Street’ Directed by Stan Lathan

Director Stan Lathan is known for helming pioneering TV series that paved the way for Black entertainment, including The Steve Harvey Show, Martin, Roc, Moesha, The Parkers, Amen, among others. He was a director for three seasons of the award-winning, groundbreaking...

MUSIC: Mazarati

When it comes to Prince protégé bands there's The Time, Vanity 6 (also Apollonia 6), The Family, and then there's the great purple one's often overlooked funk rock new wave project known as Mazarati. With The Revolution's bassist Brownmark as the producer of their...

LEGEND: Ruby Chow

Born in Seattle to Chinese immigrants during a time when anti-Chinese rhetoric was plaguing the country, Ruby Chow blazed many a trail for Asian Americans — especially Asian American women. In the late 1940s, she opened Ruby Chow's Restaurant in Seattle's Beacon Hill....

ICON: Wendy O. Williams

In the Hulu docuseries Into The Void from Evan Husney and Jason Eisener (Dark Side of the Ring), we are taken on a journey of dramatic sagas from legends and unforgettable artists in heavy metal including the trailblazing ahead-of-her-time Wendy O. Williams....

ICON: Beverly Johnson

Beverly Johnson made history when she became the first Black woman to grace the cover of the August 1974 issue of American Vogue. This moment helped diversify the fashion industry and paved the way for greater representation of models of color. She has since...