Enjoy The Reggie Woods Band

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The AirTrain Jazz Festival series continues this week with The Reggie Woods Band on the AirTrain Jamaica stage. Join us as we pay tribute to Jamaica’s rich jazz history by presenting some of the New York City metropolitan area’s best jazz musicians playing live.

Participate in The St. John’s Chappell Players – “The 24 Hour Plays” – Artist Solicitation

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Join the St. John’s University Chappell Players for the third installment of The 24 Hour Play Festival! You and your theatre-loving peers can conceptualize, write, direct, design, and perform a play all in 24 hours! If you’d like to participate, fill out the form (via the link below) by Wednesday, November 1st at 11:59PM.

Discover The Relationship With Jazz, The Mafia, and Civil Rights

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Did you know that Jewish impresario Phoebe Jacobs cajoled the mafia and the music industry to save the careers of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington? Or that Duke Ellington helped to integrate nightclubs? Discover the forgotten history of jazz, mafia and civil rights with — Hugh Wyatt — journalist and author of Phoebe’s Fantasy.

Discover Why This Filmmaker Produces Documentary On Blacks Becoming Nomads From Gentrification

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Oakland, CA - A new documentary exploring displacement of African-Americans out of major U.S. cities will release on YouTube on October 25, 2017. YOU A NOMAD is a short film set in Oakland, California, where in the past generation almost 40 percent of the Black population has been displaced. The film uses a unique cross-section of African-American voices to unfold the systemic issues underlying the rapid gentrification Oakland is now facing.

As a Los Angeles native, filmmaker Shirah Dedman witnessed gentrification take hold in her own hometown. However, after moving to Oakland, she saw it in a whole new light.

"I've always thought of Oakland as a black city. After seeing the effects of gentrification, I couldn’t help but ask: What happened to the Black people in Oakland? And this question is what I sought to find out," Dedman said.

See Why Master P Is Promoting Basketball For Sport Equality

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Nationwide - Professional athletes are trying to exercise their First Amendment rights by kneeling or standing to the national anthem during NFL and NBA games. 

Russell Simmons, DMX, and Erica Ford Meditate With Southeast Queens Young People To End Violence

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By Dujon Ricks and Kamau Austin

Russell Simmons, DMX, Erica Ford With Queens Students at Anti-Violence Event

Hollis native and hip hop pioneer Russell Simmons, rapper DMX, and Erica Ford, who we call the Southeast Queens "Queen of Peace," visited a South Jamaica school Thursday to encourage teens to stay out of trouble — with the hip-hop entrepreneur kneeling down to meditate with hundreds of students as part of an anti-violence event.

The two celebs and the Peace Queen, met with about 800 local students ranging in age from 11 through 13 at Catherine and Count Basie Middle School 72 in Southeast Queens, where despite recent decrease in crime, gangs and illegal guns still mar the area.

"Dig Monstrous Jazz" - The Halloween Musical Performance With The Ed Jackson Quartet

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By Kamau Austin

It's that time again to revive your spirits as only wickedly good jazz can do.  Let's not let the more chilling weather kill our seasonal fun. Give yourself more than a ghost of a chance for Halloween entertainment and...

...Dig Monstrous Jazz this Halloween season!  "For there will be no demise in their outstanding musical performances at Jackson Room" promises club owner and band leader Ed Jackson.  In fact, we plan to kill it in our next performance. "This Performance Will Bring Even The Dead Back To Life" says a mortified Ed Jackson.

That's right in their next performances embodying Halloween, they claim to be absolutely straight slaying it!   The next musical performances will be so wickedly entertaining It's scary!