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He was an  American   comic book  artist who drew the costumed crime fighter  Phantom Lady , among many other characters. Active in the 1940's and 1950's  Golden Age of comic books , he is the first known  African-American  artist to find success in the comic-book industry. He also  penciled  an early form of  graphic novel ,  St. John Publications '  digest-sized  " picture novel "  It Rhymes with Lust  (1950). Baker was inducted into the  Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame  in 2009. Baker was born in  Forsyth County ,  North Carolina . At a young age he relocated with his family to  Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, and after graduating high school circa 1940, moved to  Washington, D.C. . Prevented by a heart condition from being drafted into the U.S. military in  World War II  era, he began studying art at  Cooper Union , in  New York ...

As an artist signed to Bad Boy records, Mark Curry rapped on songs with the Notorious B.I.G., appeared in big-budget music videos and rubbed shoulders with hip-hop's elite. His ultimate goal: a chance to write and debut his own album. But when a combination of bad business agreements with label owner Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs and personal choices got in the way of that, he turned to a different type of writing. The result was  Dancing with the Devil, How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hip- Hop. In the explosive cautionary tell-all, Curry, 39, delves into the hip-hop beef that ultimately resulted in the deaths of rappers Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. and exposes Combs — one of the most powerful people in hip-hop — as an economic opportunist with little interest in helping his artist get ahead. When you first signed to Bad Boy, where did you see your music career going? All the way to the top as an entertainer and rapper. I saw me being able to feed my f...

You ever wonder why hip-hop music is the genre that is most uniquely focused on big, white corporations paying black men to brag about how high and drunk they are? You think this is a coincidence? Sorry, but it’s not. There is a reason why an artist rapping about smoking and drinking will usually get a deal before a rapper who spits about being intelligent and hard-working. Much of this is because there are people who have a vested interest in seeing black men weak and easily built for incarceration or execution. To understand where I’m coming from, think about the actions of a pimp. When a pimp is seeking to control his hooker, one of the things he might do is keep his “employee” high, dependent, thoughtless and off-balance. If he/she needs their pimp for the drug and has a frazzled mind, the pimp will always have control. So, the point here is that America has been working to consistently pimp the black man (slavery was the ultimate form of pimping), and one of the ways they...