The beauty of art is that it starts with one person's dreams and ideas, which are then realized in a painting,…
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Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
Julie Walker
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She is the wife of one of the biggest stars on the planet, Denzel Washington, and the mother of rising star and…
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Like a lot of people, Spike Lee first fell in love with Michael Jackson as a little boy watching the Jackson 5 on…
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When the lights went up after a Sundance screening of Nate Parker’s film The Birth of a Nation, the bidding war…
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Don Cheadle was nominated for an Oscar for Hotel Rwanda in 2004. He lost to Jamie Foxx for his performance in Ray.…
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Black art matters here at Art Basel Miami Beach, Dec. 3-6, 2015, the premier art show in the United States. During…
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One of the central figures in the history of the Black Panther Party is Kathleen Cleaver, the first communications…
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Have you ever had trouble finding that perfectly sexy one-piece or tantalizingly comfy bikini to show off your…
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The American Black Film Festival is once again taking place in New York City, from Thursday through Sunday. The…
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The 14th annual Tribeca Film Festival is coming to New York City April 15-26, and it features a handful of films…
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In this high-tech world we live in—where tech startups are creating new apps and gadgets daily that can do…
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Mental illness, still very much a taboo subject in the African-American community, is tackled head-on in the new…
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Fresh off the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., the Rev.…
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The founders of #BlackLivesMatter are grateful that their message has been picked up by so many people as a rallying…
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How to solve the diversity issue in tech was one of the topics covered by the South by Southwest panel “How to Not…
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From Selma, Ala., to South by Southwest, filmmaker Ava DuVernay took her message of living in the moment and being…
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When the hashtag stops trending, what can be done to continue the movement? That was the topic tackled at the panel “…
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It isn’t exactly news that the tech world has a diversity problem. At this year’s South by Southwest Interactive—the…
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At the 74th annual Academy Awards in 2002, Sidney Poitier—who became the first African American to win a best actor…
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