By MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby’s chief accuser took the witness stand Friday at his sexual assault retrial, declaring for a second jury that he knocked her out her with three blue pills and then sexually assaulted her at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. “I was weak. I […]
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Cenac’s Comedy Series Aims to Inform as Well as Entertain
By The Associated Press Wyatt Cenac, the latest entrant in late-night television comedy with a series that debuts Friday on HBO, took inspiration from John Oliver in his desire to inform along with being entertaining. Cenac’s “Problem Areas” is described as a comedy “docu-series,” and resembles Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” in how each episode has […]
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Between the World and Me’ Comes to Life at the Kennedy Center
By Hamzat Sani, Special to the AFRO “And you know now, if you did not before, that the police departments of your country have been endowed with the authority to destroy your body. It does not matter if the destruction is the result of an unfortunate overreaction. It does not matter if it originates in a […]
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Unreal’s Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Champions LGBTQ Community in Television
By Nadine Matthews, Special to the AFRO Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman (“Unreal”) made the painful decision to leave acting a few years ago. “I was taking jobs for the wrong reasons and wasn’t really happy playing the characters I was playing,” he tells the AFRO. “Even if they were queer characters some of them were just not very […]
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Athlete Turned Photographer Hopes to Change Urban Perceptions
By Mark F. Gray, Special to the AFRO J.J. McQueen has spent most of his adult life looking at life through the prism of a camera’s lens. Whether he’s on assignment in the heat of the Freddy Gray aftermath or covering a sports event for Showtime, McQueen has traveled across the United States to chronicle an […]
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Star-Studded DC Emancipation Day Celebration Set
By Akil Wilson, Special to the AFRO This weekend Washington D.C. is preparing to celebrate the 156th anniversary of Emancipation Day, a day that commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia on April 16, 1862. “Its important to tell the story of the 3,100 enslaved African-Americans freed in the District […]
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Accusers Confront Bill Cosby
By The Associated Press Women who say comedian Bill Cosby knocked them out with intoxicants and sexually assaulted them decades ago are finally getting a chance to confront him — and they aren’t holding back. Janice Baker-Kinney will return to the witness stand on Thursday after punctuating her first two hours of testimony at Cosby’s […]
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Topless Protester Gets Close to Bill Cosby
By The Associated Press A topless protester with “Women’s Lives Matter” written on her body jumped a barricade and got within a few feet of Bill Cosby on Monday as the comedian walked into a suburban Philadelphia courthouse for the start of his sexual assault retrial. The woman ran in front of Cosby toward a […]
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Baltimore School for the Arts Alum Making New TV Show for Millennials
By Tilesha Brown, Special to the AFRO Imani Robinson, a Baltimore native, actor, alumna of the Baltimore School for the Arts and television writer is looking to produce a new show called “3 Blind Mice.” But despite the name, this show has nothing to do with nursery rhymes. Imani Robinson is currently raising money for a […]
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Atima Omara, Political Pioneer with No Fear of Failing
By Tilesha Brown, Special to the AFRO Atima Omara is an award-winning political strategist, advocate, writer and speaker based in Washington, D.C. She made history in 2013 when she became the first African American, and only the fifth woman, to be elected president of the Young Democrats of America (YA). She has worked for a governor […]
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Erin J. Gilbert’s Job is to Archive Black Art for the Smithsonian
By Nadine Matthews, Special to the AFRO Erin J. Gilbert recalls the wise advice of a former mentor who told her, “Nothing matters besides acquisitions, exhibitions and publication.” In the world of fine art, the value of a piece of art is directly related to these three elements. Archiving the documents of artists enable publications of […]
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LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND
By Valerie Fraling, Special to the AFRO “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind… And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get […]
