NEW YORK - On Friday, hip-hop legend Kool DJ Red Alert was honored with his own statue in his home neighborhood as part of the ongoing Harlem Sculpture Gardens exhibit. Kool DJ Red Alert himself was ...
'Thank you for believing in me and embracing me for what I've been doing' Legendary hip-hop DJ Kool DJ Red Alert, who is commemorating 40 years in radio, was honored with a statute in Harlem, New York ...
On this date in 1956, one of Hip Hop’s original gatekeepers, Fred Crute aka Kool DJ Red Alert, was born on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Red Alert, a Hampton University alumnus, has become one of ...
Kid ‘n Play will headline a lineup of Hip-Hop trailblazers being inducted into the National Hip-Hop Museum on August 23 at DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre. The induction isn’t just a one-night celebration ...
For monthly fixes of partying to the sounds of some of hip-hop’s most famed DJs, like DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Young Guru, Ali Shaheed Muhammad or Spinderella, the usual prescription has been 9th Wonder ...
West Harlem Art Fund, NY Artist Equity Association and NY Women Chamber of Commerce will present artist Sherwin Banfield and his sculpture YEAA-a-a-a- a-ah! to Montefiore Park honoring the Harlem ...
The viewing takes place on Monday (April 28) at John J. Fox & Son Funeral Home in the Bronx from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. ET. The burial will follow at the Forest Green Park Cemetery in Morganville, New ...
==People==* Kool (surname), surname of Dutch originAs a play on the word "cool" in stage names of musicians:* Kool (born 1950), American bassist and founder of Kool and the Gang (Robert Bell)* Roger ...
The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...