On February 23, 1999, Eminem released his second full-length album, The Slim Shady LP. It landed him his first song on Billboard’s Hot 100 (the hit “My Name Is”), a Grammy for Best Rap Album, and quadruple platinum certification only a year later. On its 25th anniversary, as part of our series Silver Liner Notes, we revisit the album with Noah Callahan-Bever, former editor-in-chief at Complex and VP at Def Jam, and current co-CEO of the multimedia company Idea Generation.
According to The Met, the Harlem Renaissance has not been surveyed in a New York museum since 1987. The museum’s new exhibition, The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, presents more than 160 works of various mediums examining the culturally rich period of Black American creativity in the early 20th century, with Harlem as its epicenter. For our ongoing Black History Month series dedicated to both famous and overlooked Black New Yorkers, we speak to curator Denise Murrell and preview the exhibition, which opens on February 25.
[REBROADCAST FROM Nov. 13, 2023] “May December” stars Natalie Portman as a Hollywood actor and Julianne Moore as a woman married to a man she once had a sexual relationship with when she was thirty-six and he was in the seventh grade. The strange comedy-drama is directed by Todd Haynes, who joined us to discuss the Independent Spirit Award-nominated film.
As The Met prepares to open a major exhibition dedicated to the Harlem Renaissance, we speak to Carolyn Johnson, founder of Welcome to Harlem, which hosts walking tours of the borough. Johnson also created the Monopoly spinoff board game, Harlem-Opoly, featuring historical sites and figures of the Renaissance era. She joins to give us a Harlem Renaissance walking tour and take your calls, continuing our Black History Month series learning more about both famous and overlooked Black New Yorkers.
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