By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The 15-year-old granddaughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is collaborating on a picture book tribute to the late civil rights leader and his wife, Coretta Scott King. Yolanda Renee King’s “We Dream a World,” with illustrations by award-winning artist Nicole Tadgell, will be published by […]
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Author Felicia Harkley encourages Black girls and boys to aspire without limits with ‘Brown Boy,’ ‘Brown Girl’ books
By Reginald Williams, Special to the AFRO Brown boy, Brown boy what do you see? I see a zoologist looking at me. I see all the careers I can be. For many youth, the seeds of success are often planted through literature. From children’s books to comics– imagining the possibilities of life is a habit […]
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Baltimore Museum of Art and Maryland Institute College of Art Announce Elizabeth Talford Scott Exhibition and Community Celebration
By the Baltimore Museum of Art and Maryland Institute College of Art Roughly 25 years ago, the Maryland Institute College of Art’s (MICA) inaugural Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS) organized a landmark retrospective of Elizabeth Talford Scott’s vibrant mixed-media fiber works that brought significant recognition to the artist and modeled innovative community-centered approaches to curation and […]
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Andy Warhol portrait of OJ Simpson goes on auction block
By Jocelyn Noveck, AP National Writer It was 1977, and Andy Warhol was at work on his “Athletes” series, portraits of top sports personalities who, he felt, were gaining cultural prominence just like “the movie stars of yesterday.” One of them was then the star running back of the Buffalo Bills: O.J. Simpson. Simpson, then […]
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“Spring Breakthrough,” a new, original Mahogany presentation, premieres Sunday, April 30
Get a sneak peek at the trailer here. SPRING BREAKTHROUGH STUDIO CITY, CA – Keesha Sharp (“Lethal Weapon,” “Girlfriends”), Demetrius Grosse (“Lovecraft Country,” Rampage), Rhyon Nicole Brown (“Our Kind of Love,” “Empire”), and Akono Dixon (“All American,” “Euphoria”) star in “Spring Breakthrough,” a new Mahogany presentation premiering Sunday, April 30 (7 p.m. ET/PT), on Hallmark […]
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Are you a Facebook user? You could get some settlement cash
By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time since May 24, 2007, can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta has agreed to pay. Meta is paying to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media […]
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Fox News and 2020 election lies face a reckoning
By David Bauder, AP Media Writer Starting April 17 in a courtroom in Delaware, Fox News executives and stars will have to answer for their role in spreading doubt about the 2020 presidential election and creating the gaping wound that remains in America’s democracy. Jurors hearing the $1.6 billion lawsuit filed against Fox by Dominion […]
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New podcast highlights legacy of 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike and sacrifice of Martin Luther King Jr.
By Reginald Williams, Special to the AFRO The I AM campaign over sanitation workers’ conditions in Memphis, Tenn. –the spark that led to Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968–is dramatically spelled out in a podcast released this month by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees commemorating King’s final social justice campaign. […]
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Michelle Miller releases new book, ‘Belonging: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Love and Loss’
By Reginald Williams, Special to the AFRO Michelle Miller recently discussed her journey to a stronger idea of self and the motivation behind her memoir, “Belonging: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Love and Loss.” Among friends, fans, Howard professors and classmates, Miller bore her soul at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in […]
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MLB videogame, The Show 23, breaks barrier with Negro League players
By Jonathan Landrum Jr., The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — MLB The Show has broken a video game barrier: For the first time, the franchise will insert some of the greatest Negro League players — from Satchel Paige to Jackie Robinson — into the 2023 edition of the game as playable characters. Video gamers […]
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“Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures” exhibit opens March 24
By Michelle Richardson, Special to the AFRO Have you ever wanted to see George Clinton’s wig up close or experience the power of the Black Panther suit worn by Chadwick Boseman? The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s newest exhibit makes that possible with “Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures,” opening March 24. […]
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Well Read Sistas: meet the woman promoting Black women authors and Black stories year-round
By Nadira Jamerson, Word in Black It’s been 73 years since Zora Neale Hurston’s essay “What White Publishers Won’t Print,” ran in the Negro Digest. As Hurston explained back in 1950, even though publishing houses “are in business to make money,” they don’t publish “romantic stories” about Black people “because they feel that they know […]
