Cynthia Erivo honors The Wiz with a powerful performance of 'Home' to open the Oscars

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Cynthia Erivo honors The Wiz with a powerful performance of 'Home' to open the Oscars

Cynthia Erivo opened the Oscars with a breathtaking performance of The Wiz classic "Home," paying homage to Stephanie Mills and Diana Ross.

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Black America speaks. America should listen.

30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in

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Msando murder: Oscar Sudi in trouble

Alego-Usonga MP Samuel Atandi on Saturday asked the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti to arrest Kapseret legislator Oscar Sudi over his remarks in relation to the death of former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ICT Manager Chris

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Screenwriter With a Black Animation Screenplay That Rivals the Movie "Sing" is Seeking Representation

Nationwide — Leon Fowler, who has been writing for over 30 years, has come up with a screenplay for a major motion picture animation for children of color (something rarely seen in Hollywood) that will rival the highly successful movie

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Booker Washington in Seattle, 1913

An unusual incidence of interracial solidarity between blacks and Asian Americans occurred during Booker T. Washington’s visit to Seattle. In March 1913, Washington embarked on a national speaking tour in order to raise money for Tuskegee Institute, the chronically underfunded “Normal and

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Name at birth: David Wark Griffith

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The Choreographer Behind Lizzo and Janelle Monáe’s Performances

The Choreographer Behind Lizzo and Janelle Monáe’s Performances

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Common - AALAS 2019 Nominee

Common – Let Love Have The Last Word

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Hollywood’s Movie Review: Miss Juneteenth

Miss Juneteenth is a labor of love for first-time director and Fort Worth native, Channing Godfrey

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Source: Serving Northeast Texas

(1947) Henry A. Wallace, “Ten Extra Years”

Henry A. Wallace, the Vice President of the United States from 1941 to 1945 and the future candidate for the Presidency on the Progressive Party ticket in 1948, chose the National Convention of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma in December 1947 to outline his views on racial

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Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Dandridge was a popular African American celebrity, known for her remarkable acting in Hollywood. Her other skills besides theater acting included dancing and singing. For her outstanding work in the 1954 film Carmen Jones, Dandridge was nominated for the Academy Awards, rendering her the

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Nov

9

1922

Jennifer Hudson Stars As Aretha Franklin in 'RESPECT' — Watch Sneak Peek

Director Liesl Tommy makes her feature film debut with

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Free 'Do the Right Thing' rental; Spike Lee Talk Offered

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Do the Right Thing” is free to rent on several platforms all week and an online discussion will be held with director Spike Lee on his 1989 film about racism, protests, police brutality and a New York neighborhood in

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Holden, Oscar (1887-1969)

Oscar Holden, often called the patriarch of Seattle jazz, was one of the earliest of Seattle, Washington’s influential jazz musicians. Holden was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1887. Before moving to Chicago, Illinois to escape from the South, Holden had played on Fate Marable’s famous

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Halle Maria Berry is an Oscar winning Hollywood actress who is known for her stunning good looks, wide array of roles and being the face of Revlon cosmetics. She was born on August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio to Jerome and Judith Berry and has an older sister named Heidi. Her father was an

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Aug

14

1966

One bad apple spoils the barrel –

This debate was sparked by the shocking videotape of George Floyd being casually murdered by a Minneapolis police

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Bob Johnson Calls on BLM to Establish Independent Black Political Party to Help Advance Black Interests

Last week, Bob Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), sent an open letter to the “leaders and supporters” of the Black Lives Matter movement calling for them to consider establishing “a formal independent political

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150 faculty members sign open letter to Georgia State University president for more diversity | The Atlanta Voice

The letter reads as

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African American History and Women Timeline 1980-1989

[Previous] [Next] Angela Davis ran for Vice President on the Communist Party ticket. She became Professor of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, a position she held until 1984. Janie L. Mines graduated from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. She was the first African American

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Liberia: Civil Society Organizations At Odds Over Changing Mid-Term Elections Date to December

The Election Coordinating Committee of Mr. Oscar Bloh and the Liberia Election Observation Network (LEON) represented by Mr. Augustine Tamba and Mr. Amose Williams were in

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African-American History Timeline: 1960 to 1964

Sidney Poitier wins an Oscar for Best Actor for his role in the film, Lilies of the Field. The achievement makes Poitier the first African-American to win an Oscar in the Best Actor

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Source: ThoughtCo

'Gone With The Wind' Returns To HBO Max With New Introduction

'Gone With The Wind' Returns To HBO Max With New Introduction

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Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the Empress of Soul,[1] [2] is an American singer–songwriter and actress. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner,[3] Knight is best known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s and 1970s, for both the Motown and Buddah Records labels, with her group

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28

1944

Billy Porter speaks up for Black LGBTQ: ‘Our lives matter too’

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Berry Gordy Jr. is the founder of Motown Records, the first black owned music label in the U.S. He was born on November 28, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan to Berry Gordy, Sr. and Bertha Fuller Gordy. He had seven other siblings and was the seventh of his eight siblings. He is a descendent of a white

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Nov

28

1929

Belonging to Fort Scott, Kansas, Gordon Parks was born on November 30, 1912 to a family whose head was a vegetable farmer. Being black, Parks faced extreme forms of discrimination as a child and was forced to attend a segregated elementary school. His race also prohibited him from active

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Nov

30

1912

1st Black Democratic Congressman

Arthur L. Mitchell defeated Oscar DePriest in a Chicago election and became the first Black Democratic congressman.

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Nov

7

1934

10 Famous African American Women You Should Know About

It is not untrue when they said it’s a men’s world. One hardly see equal ratio of man and woman, be it in a workplace setting, educational institute or sports. Men always tend to stay ahead of women throughout the history. Even in the twenty-first century we see a huge pay gap between two genders

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Jordan Peele, Other Directors Affirm They Won't Let John Boyega Be Out of Work Over His Fiery Speech on Racism

John Boyega gave a speech like a true freedom fighter when he spoke at a rally folks for George Floyd on Wednesday in London’s Hyde

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'Hair Love' filmmaker signs first look deal with Warner Bros. TV

Michael A. Cherry's animated short "Hair Love" (Sony

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