Mar 18th, 2010 · For 30 years Mikki Taylor has made sure black women look their very best as the beauty and cover director of Essence magazine. Now she's planning to retire. Host Michel Martin speaks with her about her career.
Mar 11th, 2010 · Emily Rodgers has one of those haunting, unforgettable voices that radiates with a surreal beauty. On her latest CD, Bright Day, the Pittsburgh-based singer-songwriter pairs her gently plucked guitar with spare, brushed rhythms and strange sonic textures, and soaks the whole mix in a heavy wash of reverb.
Mar 5th, 2010 · In 2001, Halle Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Monster’s Ball, directed by Marc Forster. The award made her the first African-American woman to win an Oscar in this category. Berry is both a biracial beauty in an integrated era and a performer who has demonstrated her ability across a range of characters.
Mar 4th, 2010 · Brains, beauty and beats collide in the music of Nigerian-born newcomer Nneka. A small woman with an afro bigger than most, the singer was warm and engaging from the start of one of her first U.S. radio appearances.
Mar 1st, 2010 · Tell Me More looks back at some of the most prominent African-American actresses of all times, beginning with Dorothy Dandridge. The 50's diva challenged conventional beauty and was the first black actress to receive an Oscar nomination.
Feb 26th, 2010 · A time-lapse video shows the beauty of fluorescent polyps.
Feb 22nd, 2010 · As the frontman for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Alec Ounsworth wrote brash, poppy songs. But the singer and songwriter clearly had more music to make. In the fall of 2009, he released a solo record called Mo' Beauty, an album he wrote and recorded in New Orleans with a number of local musicians. Here, Ounsworth performs songs from Mo' Beauty, accompanied only by two guitars.
Feb 18th, 2010 · There is beauty in science. There is information in art. Merging those two worlds could bring new insights into how the natural world works.