Former Journalist Mark Anthony Green's New Film Questions Our Relationship With Celebrity Culture–' We've Taken A Dark Turn'

First Thing: US has three months to prepare for second Covid-19 wave, say scientists

A group of nine leading scientists who advised President Barack Obama has warned that the US has just three months to rebuild its stockpile of emergency medical equipment if it wants to be prepared for a second wave of coronavirus in the

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JO 2024 : Florent Manaudou décroche le bronze pour ses 4es Jeux sur sa distance fétiche - Haiti24

Une semaine après avoir porté le drapeau de la France au cours de la cérémonie d'ouverture et pour ses 4e JO, Florent Manaudou a décroché une cinquième médaille olympique en remportant le bronze dans la finale du 50 m nage

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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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Gordon Parks

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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Vincent Tubbs: First African American to Head a Motion Picture Industry Union

Vincent Tubbs was a leading African American journalist, who became the first black person to head a motion picture industry

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Kylian Mbappé appelle à voter contre le Rassemblement national, sans le citer - Haiti24

Kylian Mbappé pendant le match France-Belgique en huitièmes de finale de l’Euro 2024 de football, à Düsseldorf, en Allemagne, le 1ᵉʳ juillet 2024. MARIUS BECKER / AP Kylian Mbappé a repris la parole au sujet des législatives, après avoir estimé le 16 juin qu’il s’agissait de « faire le bon choix

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13-Year-Old Black Teen Solves 34 Math Problems in 172 Seconds, Earns Full Scholarship

Nationwide -- Meet Nasara James Dabo, a 13-year-old girl from Nigeria who has caught attention with her incredible feat. At the International Mathematical Olympiad, she solved 34 math problems in just 172 seconds, winning a gold medal in the junior category.Nasara, who is a student at Ideal College

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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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Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer is a contemporary African American actress. She is recognized for her role in the film, The Help, as an outspoken maid. For her remarkable performance she won the prestigious Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award among other

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1970

'Gone With The Wind' Returns To HBO Max With Intro By Expert In African American Film

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to film scholar Jacqueline Stewart, who provided a new introduction with historical context to the film Gone with the Wind for its re-release on HBO

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Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Acquires Rights To Sammy Davis, Jr. Bio

Entertainment Studios, Inc., which produces and distributes 38 television programs worldwide, making it one of the largest independent producers/distributors of first-run syndicated television programming for broadcast television stations and owner of eight 24-hour HD cable networks, proudly

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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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Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard , in full Athol Harold Lannigan Fugard (born June 11, 1932, Middelburg, South Africa), South African dramatist, actor, and director who became internationally known for his penetrating and pessimistic analyses of South African society during the apartheid

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11

1932

The Power of the Press: African-American News Publications in the Jim Crow Era

Overview of the African-American

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Terry McMillan, novelist born

Terry McMillan

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1951

Fred Jones

Fred McKinley Jones is certainly one of the most important Black inventors ever based on the sheer number of inventions he formulated as well as their

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Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker was a dancer and singer who later became a Civil Rights activist. Her birth name was Freda Josephine McDonald and she was born on June 3, 1906, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother used to be a dancer as well, but she gave up her aspirations in order to raise her children. Her father

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What is the future for Saudi Arabia in Africa? [BusinessAfrica] | Africanews

Investing in Africa is certainly nothing new for Riyadh, but this time it seems that the Saudis are determined to catch up on the African continent.

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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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Trotter, William Monroe (1872-1934)

WilliamMonroe Trotter was a major early twentieth century civil rights activist knownprimarily for launching the first major challenge to the political dominance ofTuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington and as an inspiration for the formation of theNational Association for the Advancement

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1934

Lincoln Motion Picture Company

African American audiences were generally ignored by the major motion picture studios in the first two decades of the 20th Century. Nonetheless, demand for films aimed at black theaters in both the South and larger Northern cities prompted the formation of several “black” motion picture

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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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LOTTO Results edit post Daily Lotto results for Sunday, 28 February 2021 2021-02-28 edit post Lotto and Lotto Plus results for Saturday, 27 February 2021

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Amidst Growing Politicization, Book Bans Become Increasingly Common in Texas - Dallas Weekly

Nonprofit organization PEN America, which identifies its directive as to “raise awareness for the protection of free expression” in the United States and worldwide, has released its list of banned […] The post Amidst Growing Politicization, Book Bans Become Increasingly Common i

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Lorraine Hansberry

The granddaughter of a freed slave, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, to a successful real estate broker and a school teacher who resided in Chicago, Illinois. In 1938, the family moved to a white neighborhood and was violently attacked by its inhabitants but the former refused to

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In Praise of Mayme Clayton: Images of the African American West

Dr. Mayme Clayton was born in Arkansas and transplanted to California, where she served as law librarian at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), beginning in 1957. In 1969 she helped put together the university’s African American Studies Center Library. But her most astounding

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Au Maroc, l’ancien premier ministre islamiste Abdelilah Benkirane dérape dans l’antisémitisme - Haiti24

Abdelilah Benkirane à Rabat, en mars 2017. FADEL SENNA / AFP Une « erreur » et des larmes. C’est dans la contrition et les pleurs qu’Abdelilah Benkirane, le secrétaire général du Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD), est revenu, dimanche 19 novembre, sur l’accord qui a scellé la reprise

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Clarence's Hollywood

Katherine Stockett’s excellent novel, The Help, is about the African American maids who worked in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. Stockett reflects the brutal realties of 20th Century slavery being carried out in pretentious southern white households that continued from

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Afro e-Edition 05-24-2024

The post Afro e-Edition 05-24-2024 appeared first on AFRO American Newspapers.

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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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