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Issa Rae, Yara Shahidi & Roberta Flack Among 2017 “Black Girls Rock!™” Honorees

BET Networks and Beverly Bond, CEO, Founder and Creator of “BLACK GIRLS ROCK!™”are excited to announce this year’s BLACK GIRLS ROCK!™ Awards taping on Saturday, August 5, 2017 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Prudential Hall in Newark, NJ. The broadcast will premiere on Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 8:00 P.M. ET/PT on BET. The 2017 BLACK GIRLS ROCK!™ celebrants […]

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1852: Frederick Douglass asked “Are we included in your Celebration of Freedom?”

By Danny L. White 1852: Frederick Douglass asked “Are we included in your Celebration of Freedom?” Despite Heroism on the battle field – freedom eluded African Americans… One hundred and sixty years ago, Frederick Douglass the leading Negro citizen of the day born of African descent and born into American bondage known as slavery, was

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Harvard Student Submits Rap Album For Final Thesis Graduates with Honors

  African American Harvard Student Makes History by Submitting Rap Album For Thesis Harvard student will graduate with one of the highest accolades after submitting a 10 track rap album for his final thesis. What’s so amazing about this story is that, never in the history of the Ivy League institution has this been done. The

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Donald Glover and More Innovators, Listed as 100 Most Creative in Business

In an interview with Fast Company, Donald Glover the brilliant mind behind FX’s series Atlanta, was listed as one of the 100 most creative people in business. Glover has an impressive list of upcoming projects including playing  Calrissian in Han S0lo prequel (due next summer), voice of Simba in the upcoming film, The Lion King, and he

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Remembering Coretta Scott King

  Born in Heiberger, Alabama, in 1927 civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, the wife of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., played a prominent role in continuing his vision of nonviolent protest for civil liberties after her husband’s assassination. King  founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in 1968, successfully advocated

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Photo: Celebrating Jackie Robinson’s Legacy

Today, April 15, marks the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson taking the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers and breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier. Breaking major league baseball’s color line will forever be the centerpiece of Jackie Robinson’s legacy. Here’s how Jackie Robinson day all came about. Twenty years ago, Rachel Robinson, wife of the late, great Jackie

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QOTD: “Where there is a woman there is magic.” by Ntozake Shange

 American playwright, and poet Ntozake Shange Perhaps best known for her first play, “Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow Is Enuf” which was later turned into a feature film by Tyler Perry, Ntozake Shange, is a playwright, poet and is a self proclaimed feminist. Colored Girls first gained notoriety in 1974 as an electrifying

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