Shamira Ibrahim

1 week ago | thecut.com | Shamira Ibrahim

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Cosmo Free, Retailers Samara Cyn, a rising artist from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has had many full-circle moments this year. She met Isaiah Rashad as a fan at a meet and greet, only to end up touring with him. And after she met Lauryn Hill at Coachella last year, she wound up receiving a personal invitation to share the stage with her idol.

3 weeks ago | wrvo.org | Aisha Harris |Shamira Ibrahim |Mike Katzif |Jessica Reedy

If you're a celeb visiting The Jennifer Hudson Show, it's almost guaranteed you're going to make your way down the Spirit Tunnel – and possibly go viral. In just a few seconds, these videos can reveal a lot about a celeb's personality and persona: Do they have rhythm? Are they any good at improv? And how famous are they, really? The answers are (sometimes) really surprising!Audio engineering was performed by Jimmy Keeley, Robert Rodriguez, and Kwesi Lee. Copyright 2025 NPR

3 weeks ago | npr.org | Aisha Harris |Shamira Ibrahim |Mike Katzif |Jessica Reedy

We ease on down 'The Jennifer Hudson Show' Spirit Tunnel Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1250902329/1269290281" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Jennifer Hudson in the Spirit Tunnel on The Jennifer Hudson Show. Michael Yarish/WBTV via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael Yarish/WBTV via Getty Images Jennifer Hudson in the Spirit Tunnel on The Jennifer Hudson Show.

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Shamira Ibrahim

To get a sense of what ails this season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, watch the eighth episode, where the Housewives find themselves in Nashville to celebrate Porsha Williams’s birthday. The trip is intended to cement Porsha’s fêted return to the franchise that brought her success, as she holds court in front of a new cast with her patented mix of raunch and humor. But that doesn’t quite happen.

1 month ago | vulture.com | Shamira Ibrahim

In his 2006 short-story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone,Amiri Baraka details the Afrofuturist concept of “rhythm travel,” in which a man can journey within refrains of music to legacies past, present, and future. It’s a powerful piece of speculative fiction rooted in concepts Baraka previously articulated in Blues People, a seminal study of how Delta blues and its immediate descendants are situated in the seat of modern Black history.