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OMG Studios’ Innovation Lab Youth To Host Community Podcast Network

OMG Studios' Announces Its Innovation Lab Youth Will Host Its KZMOHD Community Podcast Network

About OMG Studios Innovation Lab

OMG Studios Innovation Lab is an interactive and evolving music, art and literature immersion project that will function as a cultural content creator hub. Participants will create a wide array of multimedia, inspired by the Twin Cities’ rich music and art culture.

Mission Statement

To provide a creative outlet for youth for music, art and literary expression, development, and education.

About KZMOHD Community Podcast Network

A community podcast network started in March 2022 as the original content distribution network for OMG Media and OMG Studios showcasing  its vast media programming developed with community partners.

OMG Studios is located in the Creative Enterprise Zone of Saint Paul, MN. KZMOHD Community Network streams in high definition at OMG Studios, a state-of-the-art podcast, music and entertainment production studio and youth innovation lab.

Learn more at: https://omgmediasolutions.com

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SLY Lives aka The Burden of Black Genius Review & Perspective

SLY LIVES aka The Burden of Black Genius Review & Perspective

Sly Lives Review & Perspective by Jerry Martini and Monique Linder

#sundance #slylives #kzmohd #moniquelinder #jerrymartini #thefamilystoneband

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and founding member of Sly and the Family Stone, Jerry Martini aka “Papa J” and Monique (KZMOHD Producer) sit down to share their experience at Sundance for the release of the documentary “Sly Lives” (aka The Burden of Black Genius), directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and produced by Joseph Patel.

Trailer

Enjoy The Family Stone Band concert footage from the last show in Primm, NV at the end of the episode.

About Jerry Martini

About Monique Linder (OMG Media Solutions)

About KZMOHD

Media Contact:  Monique Linder Tel: 612.238.5300 Email: monique@omgmediasolutions.com

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Award-Winning MN African American History Film Announces Fall 2024 Tour

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9/25/24: Award-Winning MN African American History Film Announces Fall 2024 Tour

Saint Paul, MN – “Best Short Documentary” (Santa Barbara International Movie Awards) and “Best Producer” (Hollywood Discovery Awards) film, Juneteenth Reckoning with Slavery: MN African American History, announces a 5-city tour happening this Fall.

About the Film

This documentary challenges our understanding of slavery, its impact on Minnesota, and how we reconcile our past by taking viewers on a present-day journey to Ghana, to the quarters of Harriet and Dred Scott at Fort Snelling, and into conversations with current and future scholars about where we go from here.

Co-produced by: OMG Studios and Minnesota Humanities Center Featuring: King Odeneho Kwafo Akoto, III & Queen Mother Nana Afrakoma, II (Akwamu Traditional Area, Ghana, AF); Melvin Carter, III (Mayor, St. Paul); Kevin Lindsey (CEO, Minnesota Humanities Center); Dr. Christopher Lehman (Ethnic Studies Chair, Ethnic, Gender, and Women’s Studies, St. Cloud State University); T. Mychael Rambo; Thomasina Petrus; and Voices from Black Youth Healing Arts Center

Tour Dates

10/12 – North Minneapolis (Twin Cities Black Film Festival) 10/19 – Waite Park*
10/20 – St. Louis Park (Twin Cities Film Festival)
10/26 – Rochester*

11/9 – Duluth*
*FREE ADMISSION thanks to support from Minnesota Humanities Center and features a

post-screening discussion with appearances by those featured in the film. Reserve tickets: https://omgmediasolutions.com/reckoning-with-slavery-film-tour/

About Minnesota Humanities Center
The Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) collaborates with individuals, organizations, and communities to bring transformational humanities programming into the lives of Minnesotans throughout the state.

Juneteenth Reckoning with Slavery: MN African American History Film

Award-Winning MN African American History Film Announces Fall 2024 Tour

“Best Short Documentary” (Santa Barbara International Movie Awards) and “Best Producer” (Hollywood Discovery Awards) film, Juneteenth Reckoning with Slavery: MN African American History, announces a 5-city tour happening this Fall.
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Twin Cities Habitat Announces Build Forward Bash to Celebrate Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project On President Carter’s 100th Birthday On October 1

Tickets on Sale Now for Public Celebration Featuring Celebrity Emcee, Jonathan Scott, co-host of Property Brothers, and Performances by The Family Stone and St. Paul and the MPLS Funk All-Stars

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What: Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity will host the public celebration for the 2024 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project and to honor President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday at the Build Forward Bash on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at The Armory. The Build Forward Bash is a concert that is open to the public with performances by The Family Stone and St. Paul and the MPLS Funk All-Stars. Property Brothers co-host, entrepreneur, and Habitat Humanitarian Jonathan Scott will emcee the Bash with a special program honoring President Carter’s 100th birthday.

Tickets to the Build Forward Bash are only $15 each and can be purchased at tchabitat.org/buildforwardbash. Ticket proceeds benefit Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity.

The Carter Work Project is the official launch of Twin Cities Habitat’s construction efforts on The Heights housing development on St. Paul’s Greater East Side. The Carter Work Project will take place over President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday and will be hosted by Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, who will be building a home along with more than 4,000 volunteers from across Minnesota and the country. The crew is set to help build the first 30 homes of the development that week.

For the last 40 years, the Carter Work Project has traveled to 14 countries and brings together thousands of volunteers, celebrities, elected officials and other VIPs to build homes and cast a global spotlight on the importance of affordable housing. Twin Cities Habitat was chosen as the host for the 2024 project and has been diligently working over the last year to prepare for the week-long event.

When: Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024 Doors open at 6 p.m. Show starts at 7 p.m.

Where: The Armory 500 S. 6th St., Minneapolis

Who: Property Brothers co-host, entrepreneur, and Habitat Humanitarian, Jonathan Scott, The Family Stone, and
St. Paul & the MPLS Funk All-Stars, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and other local dignitaries.

About Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity

Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity brings people together to create, preserve, and promote affordable homeownership and advance racial equity in housing. Since 1985, more than 1,800 families have partnered with Twin Cities Habitat to unlock the transformational power of homeownership. Twin Cities Habitat is one of the highest-regarded Habitat for Humanity affiliates nationwide. www.tchabitat.org.

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Get To Know Sibling-Group Nunnabove Opening For Chaka Khan and Boyz II Men In This Interview From The Minnesota State Fair

NUNNABOVE has been called the “next generation of the Minneapolis sound” and was featured on Season 13 of “America’s Got Talent.” NUNNABOVE is Cadence, Mattie, Bennett and Wisdom, four siblings from the Twin Cities. They take their influences from funk, jazz, rock, neo-soul and Midwest-emo to generate their own sound and style from The Purple One to the Gloved One, The 1975 to Chaka Khan. For these siblings, family is life and the key to what they create musically. As a featured artist at Celebration 2023 at Paisley Park, the group “shined the brightest” as one of the five most memorable moments. As Matthew Allen of TheGrio writes, “The Minneapolis Sound seems to be in good hands.” The band has shared the stage with the three-time Grammy Award-winning Sounds of Blackness, PJ Morton of Maroon 5, Stokley, and many others.

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JUST ANNOUNCED: Boyz II Men and Chaka Khan LIVE at the Grandstand Summer 2023!!!

As a proud partner of the Fair bringing a Celebration of Culture & Community to Fairgoers since 2016, we are excited to bring you this...

Don’t miss the greatest Celebration of Culture & Community yet at the Great Minnesota Get-Together 2023!!!

Past Grandstand Concerts: Charlie Wilson and Fantasia, Usher and Lil Jon, Earth, Wind & Fire, TLC and Shaggy, Lionel Richie, Diana Ross

 

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Smithsonian Scholar Angela Tate and Singer Jevetta Steele Headline Juneteenth Breakfast

Breaking News!

The Minnesota Humanities Center is hosting a Juneteenth Breakfast event on Friday, June 17 featuring historian Angela Tate, curator of women’s history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) and noted gospel and R&B artist Jevetta Steele. This intimate in-person breakfast celebrates Black women’s unique relationship to the Black freedom struggle. This celebration will kick off shortly after 8:30 a.m. with a performance by Jevetta Steele and her band. Steele has performed in movies and on stages from London to Brazil, Carnegie Hall to the Apollo Theater, performing jazz, gospel, and R&B. Ms. Steele recently recorded the original soundtrack for the opera, “African Portraits” on Warner Classics Records with the Chicago Symphony. Following the opening performance, historian Angela Tate will give a talk on the background of Juneteenth, and the role of women, and in particular Black sororities, in upholding Juneteenth traditions nationwide. Tate’s curatorial work focuses on the African American story through the lens of women & gender, with a special emphasis on activism, material culture, women’s archiving, and critical family history. Duchess Harris, Professor and Chair of American Studies at Macalester College, will join Angela Tate for a discussion and audience Q&A on women and the long civil rights movement. Jevetta Steele and her band will retake the stage to close out the event. Tickets are $10, with a limited number of free tickets available upon request. Registration is required. Reserve your spot today at: https://www.mnhum.org/event/st-paul-juneteenth-breakfast/.

 

About MN Humanities Center

The Minnesota Humanities Center collaborates with individuals, organizations, and communities to bring transformational humanities programming into the lives of Minnesotans throughout the state. We believe in the power of humanities to connect people and communities, bridge differences, interpret the complexities of our world, and positively shape our collective future.

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Music Monuments featuring Andre Cymone

Music Monuments are a powerful force in the #KZMOVERSE, honoring the artistic contributions musicians make in society.

About Music Monuments

#kzmoverse #kzmohd #andrecymone #binkygriptite #omgmedia

Music Monuments are a powerful force in the #KZMOVERSE, honoring the artistic contributions musicians make in society.

While Andre has always contributed fierce funk to the artists he collaborated with, Still A Thrill being the shining example, he first debuted the most furious funk for his own forthcoming solo record when he previewed songs live at Paisley Park New Years Eve in 2019/2020. While the pandemic pushed pause on everything, this album full of funk cannot be contained and will come out this summer. Listen to the full interview on The Boogie Down with Binky Griptite, Saturday April 2nd at 8:00pm CST at KZMOHD.com. Powered by OMG Media, KZMO-HD is a creatively and environmentally responsible, global and cultural media platform, on a mission to empower the human race through music and art. Learn more at: KZMOHD.com At OMG Media and its sister-brands, our work is centered around building cultural sustainability, in which music and art are essential to human survival and development. We strive to empower communities through our OMGisms – social constructs rooted in the arts that nurture and improve the health and wellness of youth and families. Learn more at: omgmediasolutions.com.

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