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September 11, 2023
No matter what music comes to mind when you hear the words “Songs of Black America,” Brandon Patrick George hopes to expand your understanding of the phrase. In the show, the touring duo of flutist George and pianist Aaron Diehl ...
PROPEL today announced that educator Dr. Lisa N. Herring has been named President of PROPEL, effective Monday, September 18. Herring, who most recently served as superintendent of the Atlanta Public Schools, is respected as a …
Ron Carter's career spans 60 years. It includes playing with the greatest of the greats in jazz, plus film scoring, teaching, writing and numerous awards, from Grammys to a Guinness World Record as the most-recorded bassist in history.
The Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival returns for its 12th edition this weekend. Billed as one of the top ten largest film festivals in the country dedicated to films by and about people of color, the event showcases more than 70 feature films ...
You are in the right place.Madam C.J. Walker. Oscar Robertson. Mike EppsIndiana Avenue. Crispus Attucks High School. BUTTER fine art fair.“You are in the right place,” Sampson Levingston told a group of BUTTER attendees on his …
Local author Dr. Walter B. Curry Jr., founder of Renaissance Publications LLC, will be one of three featured authors at the Jubilee Festival of Black History & Culture. The event is hosted by Historic Columbia and will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m …
A new social enterprise is empowering Black girls to feel good about themselves and their natural hair. The workshop for young girls, ‘Braids and Brilliance’ takes place in Bronzeville this weekend. The program is run by Ahead Academy and has been in …
In Cord Jefferson’s idea-dense “American Fiction,” no one wants to publish literary professor Thelonious Ellison’s latest novel. Thelonious — or “Monk” to his friends — has delivered a modern reworking of Aeschylus’ “The Persians” (hardly …
On Aug. 28, a group of Black pastors, known as the Leaders Network, broke ground on a new credit union in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. Aiming to help eradicate the glaring discrepancies in wealth between Black and white residents …
Some 30 years ago, few knew Kansas City’s Black business community better than Larry Jackson Jr. The lifelong city resident and bootstrap entrepreneur was a “walking Rolodex” of the day’s places and faces, his son, Scott Mason, 53, said …
The actress and TV personality has teamed up with UPS to highlight three emerging HBCU alumni designers in a joint NYFW show titled: BIG MOTION La La Anthony is all about amplifying Black excellence. The actress and TV personality, 41, is teaming …
