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They Got the Beat: 20 Black Music Producers
In honor of Black Music Month, we’ve created a list of the top black music producers working today. The list is a mix of the well-known and the up-and-coming, which means the sounds you hear booming out of car windows this summer will most likely have been created by one of these top black producers.…
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Flavorful Fatherhood: Black Celeb Dads
Reading bedtime stories to his daughter so that she would fall asleep did not work in the Jackson household. In an audio recording on YouTube, the actor describes how he used “colorful” language to his daughter Zoe, now 30, to close up shop for the night. “I did say, ‘Go the f—k to sleep’ to…
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Flavorful Fatherhood: Black Celeb Dads
Reading bedtime stories to his daughter so that she would fall asleep did not work in the Jackson household. In an audio recording on YouTube, the actor describes how he used “colorful” language to his daughter Zoe, now 30, to close up shop for the night. “I did say, ‘Go the f—k to sleep’ to…
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2013 Tony Awards in Pictures
Patina Miller, winner of the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for Pippin; Cicely Tyson, winner of the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for The Trip to Bountiful; and Billy Porter, winner of the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a…
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2013 Tony Awards in Pictures
Patina Miller, winner of the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for Pippin; Cicely Tyson, winner of the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for The Trip to Bountiful; and Billy Porter, winner of the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a…
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No One Does Victory Like Serena Williams
June 9, 2013: Serena Williams celebrates as she wins the French Open final against Russia’s Maria Sharapova at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Sept. 9, 2012: Williams lifts the championship trophy after defeating Victoria Azarenka of Belarus to win the women’s-singles final match on day 14 of the U.S. Open at the USTA National…
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No One Does Victory Like Serena Williams
June 9, 2013: Serena Williams celebrates as she wins the French Open final against Russia’s Maria Sharapova at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Sept. 9, 2012: Williams lifts the championship trophy after defeating Victoria Azarenka of Belarus to win the women’s-singles final match on day 14 of the U.S. Open at the USTA National…
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Beyond Trayvon: Black and Unarmed
Last year’s killing of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood-watch captain who deemed him “suspicious” and who claims that he shot the 17-year-old in self-defense sparked a heartbreaking national conversation about race and justice. His story is all the more tragic because it follows a familiar pattern. As George Zimmerman’s second-degree-murder trial begins,…
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Beyond Trayvon: Black and Unarmed
Last year’s killing of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood-watch captain who deemed him “suspicious” and who claims that he shot the 17-year-old in self-defense sparked a heartbreaking national conversation about race and justice. His story is all the more tragic because it follows a familiar pattern. As George Zimmerman’s second-degree-murder trial begins,…