Cecily Tyson doesn’t let up. After popping up in Tyler Perry’s new Netflix film, A Fall From Grace, premiering Friday, the 95-year-old actress’ new role is in Ava DuVernay’s new romantic drama, Cherish The Day.. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The very first trailer for the OWN series, which premieres next month, was released Thursday and is getting […]
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Hand-me-down: African women in their grandmothers’ clothes – in pictures | The Guardian
Joana Choumali’s portraits show modern African women swapping jeans for kente cloth – and diving into the dazzling cultural heritage of their families. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Arabic Sudanese Choumali found her subjects on the streets of Abidjan: women dressed in contemporary clothes like jeans and heels. They were instructed to wear something worn by their grandmother […]
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“Blind Tom,” born a slave, at the age of 10 became the highest paid pianist of the 19th century | The Vintage News
Tijana Radeska, The Vintage News “Blind Tom” was a musical prodigy who was born in slavery in 1850, in the state of Georgia. He was a contemporary virtuoso of Liszt and Rubinstein, but one who seemed unaware of his skin color, his fame, or his success. Blind Tom was aware only of the sounds and […]
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The Troubling Fate of a 1973 Film About the First Black Man in the C.I.A. (2018) | The New Yorker
Ivan Dixon’s “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” from 1973, displays the bedrock of racist attitudes and assumptions that renders racist policies both inescapable and irreparable. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Ivan Dixon’s 1973 film, “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” which is playing at Metrograph from Friday through Sunday (it’s also on DVD and streaming), […]
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$27 Million for Reparations Over Slave Ties Pledged by Seminary | The New York Times
The Princeton Theological Seminary said it was committed to “telling the truth” about its ties to slavery. Black students don’t think it goes far enough. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] A New Jersey seminary has pledged to spend $27 million on scholarships and other initiatives to address its historical ties to slavery, in what appears to be the […]
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Ella Baker’s Legacy Runs Deep. Know Her Name. | The New York Times
Her fighting spirit lives on in today’s social movements. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 1964, he observed that anytime an award is given to “the dedicated pilots of our struggle who have sat at the controls as the freedom movement soared into […]
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10 James Baldwin Books to Read in Your Lifetime | The Oprah Magazine
More from the literary legend behind If Beale Street Could Talk. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] James Baldwin is an iconic author for our time, a writer who gave the world countless poignant essays, shorts stories, novels, plays, and poems during his 63 years. As a gay Black man coming to terms with his identity in the 1950s, […]
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The Story of Senegalese Visionary Mama Casset | The Culture Trip
During West Africa’s prolific era of portrait photography in the 1900s, Mama Casset emerged as one of Senegal’s pioneering figures. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] When portrait photography first started to emerge from French West Africa in the early 1900s, it was almost exclusively Europeans who operated the cameras. Native subjects were prized for their exotic settings, unusual […]
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Born Into Slavery, This Centenarian Learned to Read at 116, Becoming the Nation’s Oldest Student | Black Enterprise
Selena Hill, Black Enterprise Despite being born into slavery and enduring over a century of discrimination, Mary Hardway Walker managed to accomplish an extraordinary feat. At 116 years old, she learned to read. Walker was born in Union Springs, Alabama, in 1848 and lived in bondage until she was freed at the age of 15 following […]
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