Sometimes art just puts a smile on your face. That’s the case with the work from Uzo Njoku. The visual artist, who was born in Nigeria, creates portraits and tableaus of Black and African communities through a rich saturation of…
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ESSENCE Festival Announces Hip-Hop Heralding Lineup Featuring Lauryn Hill, Megan Thee Stallion & More
In honor of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, the Essence Festival of Culture will bring out a star-studded list of artists to celebrate the genre’s global impact over the last five decades.
Read MorePilot Omar Brock is Making Careers in Aviation Accessible to the Next Generation of Black Pilots
When you are able to envision a life of infinite possibilities, it allows others to soar to unimaginable heights themselves. Pilot, philanthropist and aviation expert Omar Brock has used this passion to propel his purpose of fostering the next generation…
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Loida Lewis Remembers Her Late Husband Reginald F. Lewis with New Book
At the top of the second-floor staircase at the Harvard Club in New York City, you’ll see an impressive painting of Reginald F. Lewis, the first Black American to helm a billion-dollar company, Beatrice Foods. A graduate of Harvard Law School,…
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From Addiction to Artist, B. Robert Moore’s ‘Out The Mud’ Collection Garners Nearly a Quarter-Million Dollars
Painter B. Robert Moore and his works are a hot commodity in the art world. His latest exhibition, Out The Mud: A Black American Rite Of Passage—which wraps this week at Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles—has garnered sales totaling more than $237,000….
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Lynn Nottage on the State of Theater For Black Female Playwrights
Since Lorraine Hansberry‘s A Raisin in the Sun opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1959, becoming one of the first plays by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway, only a handful of Black female playwrights have…
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Misty Copeland to be Honored With Prestigious 2023 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award
Renowned dance conservatory and performance venue Jacob’s Pillow has announced that ballerina Misty Copeland will be receiving their 2023 Dance Award. The award is given to an artist who epitomizes the essence of dance through their life and work, and…
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Clothilde Ewing’s Newest Children’s Book Takes Us on a Toothless Adventure
After the success of her first children’s book, Stella Keeps the Sun Up, Clothilde Ewing has released a second book featuring the ever-adventurous Stella, who is on the search for a missing tooth. And once again, Ewing wraps in an…
Read MoreSuzan-Lori Parks’ New Musical ‘The Harder They Come’ Is a Tribute to Reggae Legend Jimmy Cliffs
Suzan-Lori Parks is one of this generation’s most defining voices in stage and theater. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Top Dog/Under Dog is back on stage yet again with a new work, this one connected to a musical icon. Parks…
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Op-Ed: The State of Black Women in American Politics
Black American women currently have more political power than ever in the history of this country. We’ve seen the first Black female Supreme Court Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson and sworn in the first Black and Asian American female Vice President,…
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