Clementine Hunter, a self-taught artist who hailed from the Cane River region of Louisiana, gained fame for her artwork that depicted life in and around the Melrose Plantation. As one of the most notable folk artists of her time, she is the first Black artist […]
Photo From left, the dancer Charles “Honi” Coles, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington in Pittsburgh. Credit Courtesy of Getty Images/Teenie Harris Archive/Carnegie Museum of Art SMOKETOWN The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance By Mark Whitaker Illustrated. 404 pp. Source: Nonfiction: Harlem Wasn’t […]
Goree Island in the Bay of Dakar was the largest slave trading center on the African coast, holding captured Africans bound for the Middle Passage. It offered no possibility of escape. Statue of a slave breaking his chains, and a woman hugging him is erected […]
On this day, 23 years ago, Dr. Bernard Harris became the first black person to walk in outer space. Harris earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Houston and earned his medical degree from Texas Tech University. Source: Dr. Bernard […]
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will always be remembered as a social activist and Baptist minister whose role was integral in the Civil Rights Movement. Publicly and privately, King fought for equality, justice and human rights for […]
On Sunday January 7, 2018 at the Hollywood Foreign Press 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards handsome Sterling K. Brown made history by becoming the first Black male actor to win Best Actor in a TV Drama category for his iconic role as Randall Pearson on […]