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Celebrating Black excellence at the 96th Oscars: A night of triumph and diversity

By Ericka Alston Buck, Special to the AFRO The 96th Annual Academy Awards will take place on March 10 in Los Angeles at the Dolby Theatre and the film industry’s Black talent will be on full display.  In the past year, a host of extraordinary African-American nominees have garnered the spotlight in leading and supporting […]

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Finding new dimensions, sisterhood, and healing in ‘The Color Purple’

By Lindsey BahrAP Film Writer It’s not a secret that Fantasia Barrino did not want to play Celie again. The “American Idol” winner hadn’t had the best time doing “The Color Purple” on Broadway. The protagonist of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells her story of sexual, physical and psychological abuses in the early 20th […]

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