Decades ago, the Berklee College of Music in Boston [https://www.berklee.edu/] was commonly known as “the Jazz School” or some other iteration of a Jazz Institute. More recently, it has been a haven for serious students of all styles – Pop, Rock, Fusion, Funk, Hip Hop and every imaginable kind of Latin Music inflection....
Art has always been a way for people to express the need for social justice. Maya Mercer [https://www.instagram.com/mayamercer.studio/?hl=en] uses her artistic abilities to help one group in particular–the teenagers wrought by class struggle in her rural neighborhood. Often left ignored, Mercer employs art to demonstrate their innocence...
The public image of vaping has taken hard hits in recent months. This summer marked the rise of vaping-related illnesses and even deaths, bringing this, still fairly new, recreational activity and its practitioners under public scrutiny. Calls for increased legislation and crackdown on underage vaping in communities all over the country even caused President...
Jack Herer Foundation continues work for universal education about hemp and its multitude of uses.
The mission of the summit is to emphasize the sentience of animals and the implications for how the industry should be reformed.
As Jeff Bezos becomes the richest man in modern history, a rapidly increasing awareness of what capitalism has done to the planet comes too.
Manhattan is engulfed in an environmental frenzy, as people from all over the globe have...
In 2011, Tony Elumelu, founder of the Nigeria-based United Bank for Africa, introduced the concept of “Africapitalism.” Offered as a solution to “save the continent,” [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/12/africa-africapitalism-tony-elumelu] Africapitalism maintains that it is possible, in fact necessary, for African entrepreneurs to develop the continent’s...
It is the last day of the “Rethinking Animals” Summit, and leaving behind the early Sunday sun for the cool dark of the SVA Theatre lobby, I already feel as if things have gotten serious.
Jamaica has played an important role in the history of cannabis, read on to see the five things you cannot miss at the global cannabis conference
Crop-to-Kitchen sees cannabis as the new frontier in contemporary cuisine.
We all know Meatloaf would do anything for love, but there are a few things he wouldn’t do… He won’t try on a jacket outside the dressing room He won’t watch your Instagram stories He won’t go on a low-carb diet He won’t have sex unless the air conditioner...
