By AFRO Staff The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has acquired the personal archive of civil rights activist, award-winning entertainer and producer, and cultural icon Harry Belafonte. The collection includes 400 linear feet of audiovisual materials, personal and professional papers such as letters and manuscripts, television scripts and photo […]
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Mom and Daughter Encourage Girls to See Beauty
By Ameera Steward Dee Edwards remembers her daughter, Aubrey, coming home from school one day upset that she didn’t look like her friends. The girl questioned things like the color of her skin and her hair texture and expressed feelings of wanting to be like everyone else. Dee wanted her child and other girls of […]
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Baltimore County Honor Heroes of Today, Yesterday
By J. K. Schmid Special to AFRO The Randallstown Community Center hosted “Black History: Honoring African Americans,” a program billed as “Lifting Up Our Community,” and “A Journey Through Our Legacy,” was a four-hour parade of tribute, dance, music and storytelling. Unifying the history of Black excellence with the present, the event’s story of “legacy” […]
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AFRO Facts – Lorraine Hansberry
By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL MEDIA Host Micha Green talks Lorraine Hansberry on this weeks AFRO FACTS.
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‘THE AMERICAN AUDIT’ Exposes America as a 400-Year-Old Business and Its Toll on Black Humanity
By Candice Semien, The DRUM Newspaper Baton Rouge spoken-word artist and activist Donney Rose has amassed more than 2,000 travel miles conducting hours of interviews and days of research in order to create an epic narrative that unravels 400 years of American History. It is an ambitious presentation called “The America Audit” where Rose explores […]
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Federal Prosecutors in NYC Add to R Kelly’s Legal Woes
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors hit R. Kelly with more criminal charges Friday, accusing the disgraced R&B singer of having unprotected sex with a girl in 2015 without disclosing he had herpes. The new racketeering charges were included in a revised indictment filed in New York City a week after […]
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Book Critics Give Fiction Prize to Edwidge Danticat
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Edwidge Danticat’s story collection “Everything Inside” has won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction. Chanel Miller was awarded in autobiography for “Know My Name,” her book about being sexually assaulted by Stanford University student Brock Turner. The critics circle usually announces its awards […]
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A Product of Preparation
By Imani Wj Wright Special to the AFRO I’ve been deeply immersed in music, not just as a fan but as an active creator and participant, since I was seven years old. Vocal lessons, rehearsals, and compositions are all activities I routinely engaged in. Having read and studied Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell on several occasions, […]
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National Black Doll Museum To Feature Barbie & Ebony Fashion Fair In New Exhibit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 11, 2020 CONTACT: National Black Doll Museum Of History & Culture (774) 284-4729 debbiebritt@nbdmhc.org Mansfield, MA (BlackNews.com) — The National Black Doll Museum of History & Culture – the only museum in the country whose mission is to preserve the history of African Americans through the art and craft of Black […]
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THE RUN DOWN – Comedian Tommy Davidson Releases New Book “Living in Color”
By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green speaks on Tommy Davidson’s new book, and whats trending in the AFRO American Newspaper.
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Ciara is Latest Musician to Postpone Show Due to Coronavirus
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-winning singer Ciara is the latest musician to postpone a concert because of the rapidly spreading coronavirus. Ciara, who is pregnant, was set to perform in Texas at the grand opening of the new Fort Hood USO on March 19 but announced Saturday that the event is […]
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McCoy Tyner, Iconic and Influential Jazz Pianist, Dies
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — McCoy Tyner, the groundbreaking and influential jazz pianist and the last surviving member of the John Coltrane Quartet, has died. He was 81. Tyner’s family confirmed the death in a statement released on social media Friday. No more details were provided. In this July 14, 2009 file […]
