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Chandler Cultural Foundation Appoints to LaTricia Harper Woods to Managing Board

Chandler Cultural Foundation, the non-profit managing Board for the Chandler Center of the Arts, has appointed LaTricia Harper Woods as a new member. Woods has an extensive 25-year career in strategic planning and implementation of community engagement, public relations, public...

PhxSoul Participates in Arizona’s Family Town Hall

PhxSoul.com really enjoyed having the opportunity to speak on the panel for @arizonasfamily’s #CriticalConversations Town Hall on June 16. The Town Hall hosted by Arizona’s Family provided many local politicians, officials and people with the opportunity to...

Damian “JR Gong” Marley Brings the Heat on a Rainy Arizona Roots Music Festival Weekend

Article and Photos Submitted by Tony Skinner The second-annual Arizona Roots Music Festival at Rawhide Western Town and Event Center on February 22-23 was the ray of sunshine on an otherwise cloudy, gloomy and cold weekend in the Valley of the Sun. The festival was produced by...

Review: Arizona Theatre Company Presents “Master Harold … and the Boys”

Review submitted by Jonathan Tease Recently (February 2020), I had the pleasure of seeing “Master Harold…” and the Boys at the Herberger Theater Center in downtown Phoenix. The show runs through March 1 and I highly recommend going to see it while you can. Prior to...

Tempe Falls in “Love” with Black Women

Submitted by Collette Watson “I remember a time when I didn’t have lunch money. My mom didn’t have money to give me. So she handed me a bag of watches. My mom was a hustler.” Wednesday night in Tempe, eight local figures shared true personal stories at a monologue storytelling...

SOUNDS Academy Provides Music Education Opportunities to Arizona Youth

SOUNDS Academy is a non-profit music education organization that teaches, mentors, and provides musical experiences and opportunities for underserved youth. Students receive individual lessons, group classes, and perform on the violin, viola, cello, guitar, and piano. Instruments...

Laurence Fishburne Talks ‘Black-ish,’ Family, Honesty & Culture: PhxSoul.com’s Exclusive Interview

Submitted by DaVaun Sanders Earlier this week, PhxSoul.com writer DaVaun Sanders talked with award-winning actor Laurence Fishburne about ABC’s new, highly anticipated television comedy black-ish. Fishburne plays Pops Johnson on the show. Black-ish debuts on September 24 at...