BrownGirlsFly

10 Hip-Hop artists from unexpected communities. Giving voice to the voiceless or just celebrating life from the artist’s cultural perspective, all have a great sound & are worth a listen.

It’s pretty exciting for us to see Michelle Obama showing her daughters the world. Last year they vacationed in southern Spain and this year a good will trip to Africa! What an amazing way to grow up!

It’s Mother’s Day in the US. What a great reason to celebrate motherhood around the world. Here are a few short films highlighting mothers and other nurturers we find inspiring.

One of our missions is to encourage women of color around the world to spread their wings and fly. So it was painful for us to see this video about the inflated value of men in some cultures and the consequences for women who don’t bare a male child.

My annual pilgrimage out West is long overdue and those Pacific blues are yanking vigorously on my heart strings. A few hours and wheels go up. Here’s Jose Feliciano bringing some serious Boricua soul to California Dreamin’.

For any antsy traveler with months to go before the next adventure, film has a way of connecting you deeply to a locale and its culture. Here are five films with very different but equally compelling stories about the trip of a lifetime.

During Earth Hour, it’s hard to imagine the world’s urban treasures without the pulsing colors that bring them to life. Here is a collection of images from the global hour of digital rest that we found inspiring.

There was a time that I only imagined traveling to sexy exotic locales like the French Riveria, Venice and Paris. While there’s still something to be said for a trip like that, I’ve developed an affinity for the random little places in the world that most people overlook. As such, I’ve always been a little curious about Iceland. Photos of the terrain have always reminded me of a surreal interpretation of moon rocks and moss. Check out the video-of-the-day capturing Djúpavík, Iceland.

Little did I know that nestled in the darkness at the shoreline near my dinner table at San Francisco’s Cliff House sat the ruins of the old Sutro Baths, an upscale water park built in the late 1890′s by former mayor Adolph Sutro.Here’s a little eye candy (aka High-Def video) for you to see how stunning it is for yourself.