This Friday, the Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival, headed up by Baltimore filmmaker (and Baltimore…
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Zora’s Den Pays Tribute To Toni Morrison
Great American writer Toni Morrison died earlier this month at the age of 88. Shortly…
Poetry: Where I’m From
I am from guns, From laundry detergent and Xpression hair. I am from the cement…
All Friends Are Necessary: Three questions for novelist Tomas Moniz
Earlier this week, Baltimore-based, independent Mason Jar Press released their Novella Series. The series features…
Video: D. Watkins in conversation with The Beat’s Lisa Snowden-McCray at Red Emma’s
“Five years ago, in June of 2014, 10 months before the Uprising, D. Watkins was…
In the second season of “She’s Gotta Have It,” there’s less sex, more art and a palpable sense of place informed in part, on Baltimore
The Spike Lee multiverse grows, a Black arts syllabus expands, DeWanda Wise as Nola Darling…
An Excerpt From Lawrence Lanahan’s ‘The Lines Between Us’
In this excerpt, author Lawrence Lanahan writes about the two Baltimores and how they came…
An Excerpt From Shawna Potter’s ‘Making Spaces Safer’
I was having a good night. I had traveled to New York City to visit…
Photos and Art from “The Future Generation: Parenting, Children, and Community Stories”
At the Beat’s Baltimore Museum Of Art Open Hours event “The Future Generation: Parenting, Children,…
MdFF Picks: Period blood, ’80s sing-alongs, and feelz in ‘Knives & Skin’
“Knives And Skin” remixes and reckons with the ’80s and that’s what sets it apart…