September 2019 – Urban Star Louisiana

Pokey Bear

September 17, 2019 admin

Artist Biography by Neil Z. Yeung Southern bluesman Pokey Bear injects a larger-than-life swagger into his R&B-infused bayou soul. Similar in old-school sound and spirit to Willie Clayton, the Baton Rouge party-starter is also a James Brown-influenced soul man at heart. One-third of the Louisiana Blue Brothas with Tyree Neal and Adrian Bagher (the trio issued Love on the Bayou in 2014), Pokey Bear also released the solo effort Josephine Son Pokey in 2014. The album included sensual dance tracks like “The Gingerbread Man” and “Mr. Hit It and Quit It” as well as his de facto theme song, “They Call Me Pokey.” Mr. It Ain’t Fair arrived in…

T.K. Soul

September 17, 2019 admin

Artist Biography by Mark Deming Contemporary soul singer T.K. Soul has built a loyal grassroots following for his music that mixes R&B traditions with modern-day attitude and hip-hop accents. T.K. Soul was born Terence Kimble in Winnfield, Louisiana on August 26, 1964. From a young age, Kimble had a keen ear for music, and soaked up the influences of soul, funk, and R&B artists ranging from Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5, and Al Green to Maze, Rick James, and Prince. When he was ten years old, Kimble picked up a guitar, and discovered he could easily play it by ear. Before long, Kimble was also playing keyboards, drums, and bass,…

Crystal Thomas is a singer and a trombonist in Shreveport

September 17, 2019September 17, 2019 admin

Crystal Thomas is a Shreveport-based songwriter, singer and trombonist who regularly performs around Louisiana. A performer of the blues and gospel, you can find her (if not in churches) at various clubs like Southern Soul Lounge and at the venerated Monday Night Blues Jam at Lee’s in Shreveport. In this episode of Confetti Park, Crystal shares a delightful story about how her desire to perform overcame her lack of musical know-how when she was just a child.

Post Your Business Within Our Classifieds

September 17, 2019 admin

Place your business in our classifieds and make you business more visible. Urban Star Media Classifieds was built in the spirit of Black Wall Street, a platform that works to circulate our dollar within our community. A community united in the economic cycle of production and consumption is a community that controls it’s destiny.

Journalist Opportunity

September 14, 2019 admin

Business Review We are looking for a journalist who can do our business review. Basically we charge businesses to do a review on their business and we post the review on our network to give businesses exposure. We do from taste testing to beauty make overs. The business opportunity of new age marketing, recycling community dollars through online purchasing assuring customers exchange with community merchants and holding community merchants accountable to the good will of the community by operating within a system that gives back 15% of all purchases…

Urban Star Radio Network

September 14, 2019September 14, 2019 admin

Urban Star Radio Network Own your own podcast radio station, build your audience and monetize your station through marketing and advertising the businesses within your community. If you have a ministry, record label, clothing store or barbershop purchase a channel and get your word out. Purchase your own marketing and advertising tool today. CENTOVA CAST V.3.X FOR ALL OUR RADIO HOSTING OFFERS Centova Cast v3 is the culmination of many years of development. So much has changed that it’s impractical to list every update here, but read on to learn…

Urban Star Business Opportunity

September 14, 2019September 14, 2019 admin

Urban Star Business Opportunity Ancestral Greetings family, we represent indigenous Melanated people of the planet. My name is Minko and we have a podcast hosting and web hosting company, which together we have constructed a internet media platform package within an app “Urban Star Media”. You can download free at your google app store and coming soon to your apple app store. Family we’re looking for people who would like to own their own media network so we as a community can have our own streams of communication and information…

North Baton Rouge Sen. Regina Barrow faces Gary Chambers in reelection bid

September 13, 2019 admin

In 2015, when Regina Barrow ran for the state senate post left vacant by Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, she won an endorsement from an African American-focused online publication called the Rouge Collection, run by the well-known activist Gary Chambers. But as she runs for reelection this year, Barrow won’t be getting the endorsement from the Rouge Collection. Chambers, a 34-year-old who has ascended from a little-known entrepreneur to a prominent — and provocative — voice on issues like criminal justice, is challenging Barrow, 53, for the seat. Both candidates are…

LOUISIANA PROSECUTORS USE THE ‘HABITUAL OFFENDER’ STATUTE TO JAIL PEOPLE FOR LIFE. ATTORNEYS FOR LIFERS ARE FIGHTING BACK.

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 admin

Henri Lyles is challenging his life sentence under a statute that penalizes people for prior convictions. A favorable decision by the state Supreme Court would mean that he and a dozen people sentenced to life could one day be freed. On Jan. 2, 2014, the 11-year-old daughter of Henri Pierre Lyles and Imani Wilson died of juvenile bone cancer. Just over one year later, the couple, who were still grieving the loss and coping with trauma and stress, got into an argument at their home in LaPlace, Louisiana, a town…

‘We’re doing something right in Louisiana’: More people than ever have health insurance here

September 13, 2019 admin

The number of Americans across the U.S. without health insurance rose for the first time in a decade, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But in Louisiana, more people are covered than ever before, bucking the national trend. Louisiana’s uninsured rate declined slightly from 8.4% in 2017 to 8% percent in 2018, reflecting 19,000 newly covered residents, according the bureau’s annual report on health insurance coverage released Tuesday. Nationally, the uninsured rate is 8.9%. Louisiana is one of 15 states that saw a drop in the uninsured population last year. In…