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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...


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Duke Ellington

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,...


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Mule Bone: The most talked about play that never was

“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&...


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Dr. Ben Carson: A Healer Beyond the Operating Room

Dr. Carson’s modest beginnings are certainly what make his career success amazing and almost unfathomable. Born and raised in inner-city Detroit, Dr. Carson credits his mother Sonya’s influence with much of his succ...


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Ira Frederick Aldridge was the first African American actor

  Ira Frederick Aldridge was the first African American actor to achieve success on the international stage. He also pushed social boundaries by playing opposite white actresses in England and becoming known as the preemin...


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The Empress Of The Blues

  Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer. Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s.[1] She is often regarded as on...


Black Thought Tells an Amazing Story About How Artists Used to Get J Dilla Beats

Black Thought Tells an Amazing Story About How Artists Used to Get J Dilla Beats

https://youtu.be/OIc_IB1cGhs?t=139 Between 1999 and 2006, The Roots would work with J Dilla (f/k/a Jay Dee) a number of times. Then label-mates at MCA Records, Dilla produced elements of the Grammy-nominated platinum Things Fal...