Archive for February, 2016
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing (1935 – 2016) was a Renowned psychiatrist, scholar, activist, teacher and author of the seminal 1991 work The Isis (Yssis) Papers: The Keys to the Colors and The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontati...
Model Ajak Deng leaves fashion industry over discrimination against dark-skinned models Ajak Deng, one of Australia’s best known model exports, announced her retirement from the fashion via Instagram on Tuesday nig...
Quiet storm is a radio format, musical style,[1] and subgenre of R&B,[2] pioneered in the mid 1970s by then-intern Melvin Lindsey atWashington, D.C. radio station WHUR-FM, featuring soulful slow jams. Smokey Robinson‘...
“Empire” star Taraji P. Henson will star as mathematics genius Katherine Johnson in “Hidden Figures” for Fox 2000. The studio has been developing the adaptation of the Margot Lee Shetterly book, published by HarperColli...
Hollywood’s elite celebrated the year’s efforts to diversify entertainment Friday night at the NAACP Image Awards, where awards season diversity reigned as a hot topic in the wake of the controversy surrounding 2016’s O...
A family photo of a youthful-looking woman and her twin daughters has become an online sensation as people around the world struggle to figure out which one is the mother. Just a year after 2015’s wide-spread internet deb...
Duke Ellington, or Edward Kennedy Ellington (born April 29, 1899, was one of the greatest Jazz composers and band leader. One of the originators of big band jazz, Ellington led his band for more than half a century,...
“Mule Bone,” the controversial 1930 Langston Hughes-Zora Neale Hurston play that is only now being produced for the first time, almost 60 years to the day after it was originally scheduled to open. Mule Bone&...
