LOVE MADNESS – THE ROAD TO THE FREAKY FOUR By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor – in – Chief and the BASN Staff BASN NEWSROOM PHILADELPHIA (www.basnnewsroom.com) We began our BIG BEG TOURNAMENT on the same premise as the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments casting out our nets with 64 bands/groups spread across the […]
Read more "“LOVE MADNESS™!!” BEGGING TOURNAMENT™ 2020, Part I"“LOVE MADNESS” – THE BIG BEG TOURNAMENT 2020 By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor – In – Chief and The Staff at BASN NEWSROOM PHILADELPHIA PA (and various other locations) http://www.basnnewsroom.com: As March Madness approaches, the promise of Spring brings about a different kind of response… With the dissolution of the NCAA Mens’ and […]
Read more "“LOVE MADNESS” – THE BIG BEG TOURNAMENT 2020!!"THE SOUL MAP, PART II By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor – in – Chief BASN NEWSROOM Editor’s Note: In 1968, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada sought to eliminate the sound of Soul Music from its airwaves. Silenced forever by a cabal of consciously bereft cocksuckers whose actions meant to stifle a burgeoning, unique, and […]
Read more "THE SOUL MAP, PART II"WHO STOLE THE SOUL? THE DEATH OF RHYTHM OF BLUES IN VANCOUVER, PART III By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor – in – Chief BASN NEWSROOM VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (www.basnnewsroom.com) As the page turned into 1967, it was becoming apparent that some of the youthful energy had begun to convert…to Soul Power! The kind […]
Read more "WHO STOLE THE SOUL? THE DEATH OF RHYTHM AND BLUES IN VANCOUVER, PART III"WHO STOLE THE SOUL? THE DEATH OF RHYTHM AND BLUES IN VANCOUVER, PART II By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor – in – Chief BASN NEWSROOM VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (www.basnnewsroom.com) As the map of Soul was being established across North America, it was now becoming more aware that those in the know were […]
Read more "WHO STOLE THE SOUL? THE DEATH OF RHYTHM AND BLUES IN VANCOUVER,PART II"WHO STOLE THE SOUL? THE DEATH OF RHYTHM AND BLUES IN VANCOUVER By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor -in-Chief BASN Newsroom PHILADELPHIA PA and VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (www.basnnewsroom.com) Approximately a year ago, Emily Chambers performed at a venue on Hastings Street in East Vancouver. Over 150 well-wishers crammed the venue to cheer for […]
Read more "WHO STOLE THE SOUL? THE DEATH OF RHYTHM AND BLUES IN VANCOUVER"By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter America continues to play the Chinese philosophy of Yin-Yang with African Americans, the love-hate game continues in the United States. This country loves African American music, food, clothes, culture, and athletic skills but America still wants to fight Black people for civil rights, equal pay, and basic respect. The […]
Read more "ENOUGH, ALREADY, ENOUGH"DETROIT — More than 40 performing artists will salute the life and legacy of the Queen of Soul Aretha Louise Franklin during “A People’s Tribute to the Queen” event at Chene Park Amphitheatre in downtown Detroit on Thursday, August 30, 2018, from 6:00 P.M. until 9:00 P.M. ET. Gates will open at 5:00 P.M. The musical […]
Read more "A People’s Tribute to the Queen"By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter OAKLAND, CA – African Americans have come a very long way in the National Basketball Association. In 1950, the first wave, Charles “Chuck” Cooper (Boston Celtics), Nat “Sweetwater Clifton (New York Knicks), and Earl Lloyd (Washington Capitols) arrived. Lloyd became the first African American player to win an […]
Read more "THE HISTORY OF BLACK NBA HEAD COACHES"A BASN BLACK PAPER: SPHERES OF MUSICOLOGY, PART II BASN (first presented August 3, 2014) A BASN Special Report: Spheres of Musicology Part II By Eric G. Satterwhite Mind over matter mind creates matter.. Matter of fact, since matter are facts… Matter manifests my diction – a matter of […]
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