Willie D. Burton

Fruitvale Station

Fruitvale Station is a 2013 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler. It is Cooglers first feature-length film and is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man who was killed in 2009 by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale

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Jan

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2009

The gospel of Michael Jordan: thankfully the ‘Last Dance’ is the...

I was talking to my son about the failure of Michael Jordan to speak out about issues that were important to Black people and human beings in

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Robert De Niro opens about raising biracial children: 'I take certain things for granted'

Robert De Niro attends the 92nd Annual Academy Awards in

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Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker is an acclaimed American actor, producer and director. He was born on July 15, 1961 in Longview, Texas to an insurance salesman named Forest Steven Jr. and a special education teacher named Laura Francis. The family moved to California when Whitaker was four years old. He attended

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1961

Stacey Abrams Will Appear In Voting Rights Documentary For Amazon

A new documentary about voting rights and voter suppression, prominently featuring Stacey Abrams, is set to hit Amazon later this

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Halle Berry

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

Sudi: Voters will punish errant MPs

With Deputy President William Ruto studiously silent on controversial changes to the Jubilee leadership in the Senate which saw two of his top lieutenants stripped of lucrative posts, vocal Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi has sought to fill the gap, taking aim at the party’s senators from the Rift Valley

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August Wilson

August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each work in the series is set in a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the

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Discovering The Civil War with Ken Burns

Ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker extraordinaire who brought the Civil War to life for so many of us, joined the National Archives in opening a press preview of our latest exhibit: Discovering the Civil

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Source: Black History and Culture

Rift Valley leaders divided over Uhuru, Ruto war

A section of Jubilee Party senators and MPs from the Rift Valley — Deputy President William Ruto’s political bastion — are divided over the ruling party’s purge, which has seen some of the DP’s key allies kicked out of plum leadership

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Oscars To Develop 'Representation And Inclusion Standards'

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, said Friday it is working on new diversity and inclusion efforts amid the continuing criticism over the lack of diverse nominees for the film industry’s highest

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Kenya: Ruto Allies Make U-Turn, Say They Are Pro-Development

Days after threatening to frustrate government's agenda in both the National Assembly and the Senate, Deputy President William Ruto allies have made a U-turn and are now promising to support President Uhuru Kenyatta until he finishes his

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Soul legend Stevie Wonder at 70 | DW | 12.05.2020

The year is 1963, yet hardly anyone in the theater knows who "Little Stevie Wonder" is when his record label Motown Records introduces

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Source: News and current affairs from Germany and around the world | DW

'Star Wars' and diversity could draw more Oscar viewers, film academy president says

Every year, the producers of the Oscar telecast have to please two distinct audiences: the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sitting inside the Dolby Theatre and the nearly 40 million regular moviegoers tuning into the show at

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Long, Nate (1930-2002)

Nate Long was a filmmaker, television producer, director, stuntman, actor and teacher who worked both in Hollywood and the Pacific Northwest. Long was born in Philadelphia in 1930. He joined the Air Force, became a military policeman and completed his service at Paine Field near

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Source: Black Past

Nov

14

2002

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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Rush, Bobby L. (1946- )

Bobby Lee Rush was born in Albany, Georgia on November 23, 1946. He graduated from Marshall High School in that city at the age of seventeen and soon afterwards enlisted in the United States Army. Rush served in the Army from 1963 to 1968 when he was honorably

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Nov

23

1946

Mya

Mya Marie Harrison, or simply Mya, is a Grammy award winning singer, actress and dancer who has appeared in a variety of roles over the years. Named after acclaimed poet Maya Angelou, Mya was born on October 10, 1979 in Washington D.C. Her father Sherman is an African American while her mother

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1979

Diana Ross

Best Known

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How long, O Lord, how long?

The words of King David that appear in Psalm 13 of the Old Testament echo in the hearts of American people of color

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Kenya: Rift Valley Elders Call for Talks Between Uhuru, DP Ruto

Elders and political leaders from the Rift Valley are mounting pressure on President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto to sit down and talk over the thorny issues in Jubilee Party, saying this will ease the rising

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

(Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty

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Tyrese blasted by Jamie Foxx and others for ‘reverse racism’ posts

Tyrese, Jamie Foxx (Getty

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Oscar Brown

Oscar Brown Jr. (October 10, 1926 – May 29, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor. He ran unsuccessfully for office in both the Illinois state legislature and the U.S. Congress. Brown wrote numerous songs (only 125 have been published), 12

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Netflix to spend $100M to help Black business

The New York Times reported today that Netflix, which has $5B in its cash reserves will place 2 percent of its holdings with financial institutions that loan to Black

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Spike Lee on honorary Oscar: 'This came out of nowhere, but that's how blessings often come'

Spike Lee was surprised to learn that he was being honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — a group he hadn’t been afraid to criticize in the past for its lack of

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Don Siegel

Siegel studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, and at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After a brief stint as an actor, he joined Warner Brothers studios near Hollywood as an assistant film librarian. He later worked as an editor before joining the studio’s montage department, where he

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Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson was an American singer, actor, civil rights activist, and college football player. He was exceptionally famous for his political views on anti-imperialism, communism, and the United States

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Jan

23

1976

'B--ch You Don't Know Me': Tammy Rivera Unleashes on a Fan Who Suggests She Doesn't Take Pride In Being Black After She Post's Daughter's Quinceañera Rehearsal

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Congratulations to Thomas H. Routt scholarship recipients

HOUSTON – The Thomas H. Routt Scholarship Fund in upholding the legacy of the late Judge Thomas H. Routt has awarded $1,000 each in grants to Caleb J. James of North Shore High School and Jacob H. Boyd of Shadow Creek High School for

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