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'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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Source: Stories About Black History
NO POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE –
Jordynn Bass, 17, had a beautiful gown made for her senior prom at Tampa Bay Technical High School that she will not be able to
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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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Source: Black History Resources
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30
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Providence St. Mel School Continues to "Find a Way or Make One" with 100 Percent of Graduates Accepted to Colleges and Universities.
—   Called “The School That Wouldn’t Die” by Reader’s Digest in January 1994, Providence St. Mel School Founder Paul Adams III led a historic national campaign in 1978 to save the historic inner-city
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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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Source: Black Past
The African American Experience in Italy, 1852 to 2013
In the following article longtime BlackPast.org contributor and San Diego State University Librarian Robert Fikes discusses African Americanemigrants to and visitors in
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South Africa: Constitutional Court Accused of Taking Too Long to Rule On Crucial Election Case
[GroundUp] "I fear a further delay may begin to jeopardise the election process itself" says independent candidate Zackie Achmat
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Terry McMillan, novelist born
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18
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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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Source: ThoughtCo
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The Harlem Renaissance in the American West
In the following article historians Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz discuss their new book, The Harlem Renaissance in the American West which argues that the literary and artistic outpouring by African Americans during the third decade of the 20th Century was a national phenomenon which included the
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Source: Black Past
Isaacs, Cheryl Boone (1949---)
Veteran publicist Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the first African American to serve as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, followed the path of her pioneering sibling as a top-tier executive in the Hollywood motion picture industry.  Ashley A. Boone Jr. (1939-1994),her brother, had
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2013
Transat Jacques Vabre : victoire d’Armel Le Cléac’h et Sébastien Josse sur « Maxi Banque Populaire XI » - Haiti24
Sébastien Josse et Armel Le Cléac’h, gagnants de la Transat Jacques Vabre, à leur arrivée à Fort-de-France (Martinique), le 12 novembre 2023, après 14 jours, 10 heures, 14 minutes et 50 secondes de mer. LOIC VENANCE / AFP « Ça fait du bien, c’est une grande joie, un soulagement. » Armel Le
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Black America speaks. America should listen.
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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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Lincoln Motion Picture Company
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Br'er Rabbit
Brer Rabbit /ˈ b r ɛər/ (Brother Rabbit), also spelled Brer Rabbit or Brer Rabbit or Bruh Rabbit, is a central figure as Uncle Remus tells stories of the Southern United States. Brer Rabbit is a trickster who succeeds by his wits rather than by brawn, provoking authority figures and bending social
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Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup a Violinist, married Anne Hampton on Christmas Day in 1828. In January of 1841 he was offered a job as a part-time violinist with a traveling band. This offer turned out to be a trick, where Solomon was sold into
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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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Miles College Renames Center for Economic & Social Justice After Judge U.W. Clemon
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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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The Power of the Press: African-American News Publications in the Jim Crow Era
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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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Source: Black History Resources
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May
25
1970
The Trillion Dollar African American Consumer Market: Economic Empowerment or Economic Dependency?
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Dozens of Burkina localities besieged by armed jihadist groups: Amnesty | Africanews
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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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Vincent Tubbs: First African American to Head a Motion Picture Industry Union
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Josephine Baker
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