The Ms. Foundation for Women, the nation’s first and oldest women’s foundation, hosted The 33rd Gloria Awards: A Salute to Women of Vision, which paid tribute to the remarkable achievements of those whose courage and leadership move our society toward a more just and inclusive world, and raised funds that will help support women-led nonprofits and community […]
Today Howard University announced that it has named its newly re-established College of Fine Arts after one of its most famous alumni: the late actor Chadwick Boseman. News of the school was first reported in the Washington Post. Earlier this month, Howard named actor and alumna Phylicia Rashad as the dean of the fine arts school. Boseman was a
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LOS ANGELES – OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced that a special one-hour programming event presented by Procter & Gamble as a part of its ‘Widen the Screen’ initiative, “OWN and P&G Present: Widen The Screen – A Fuller View of Black Life” premiering on Tuesday, May 25 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. This special presentation is
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Sunday evening, TV One hosted the third annual URBAN ONE HONORS award show, which was simulcasted for the first time on its sister network CLEO TV. Celebrating the exemplary accomplishments of African American women, the special was hosted by Grammy-Award-winning gospel artist Erica Campbell and award-winning journalist, author, and syndicated columnist Roland Martin. Honorees included Stacey Abrams, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Dr. Ala Stanford, Rosalind Brewer and Robin
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Los Angeles – OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced a new two-part special OWN Spotlight event, “The Legacy of Black Wall Street” premiering Tuesday, June 1, and Tuesday, June 8 on discovery+, the definitive non-fiction, real life subscription streaming service and will then broadcast in primetime the same evening on OWN at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. “The
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The first trailer just dropped for WHO WE ARE: A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICA, a film that will make its World Premiere at SXSW 2021- Documentary Spotlight, and from what we can see, it’s a long overdue conversation. ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jeffery Robinson’s powerful and groundbreaking talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism interwoven with archival footage,
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Kneeling and praying for justice and mercy as the Star Spangled Banner is being sung to White America, home of the brave. Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr; murdered in the land of the free; O say does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave. No, we are not all the same, their justice is exemption of our
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Michele Duster, author of a new biography, Ida B. The Queen, The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells, says that her goal is to expand the story of the iconic journalist and pioneering civil rights activist, who just happens to be her, great-grandmother. Duster, who took an interest in history and in
The Arizona State chapter of the NAACP is hosting a virtual town hall this coming Saturday, December 19, 2020. The virtual conference is a response to three pandemics. To register click on the flyer below which takes you directly to the zoom link. See you there!
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Dec 1, 2020, marks the 65th Anniversary of that faithful day in Montgomery, Alabama, when Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat to a Caucasian bus rider, as was the law (De-jure) in the South at the time. Jim Crow was the order of the day. The social divide and stem of racism had been
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