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New Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Shows Rarely Seen Photos of Billie Holiday’s Private and Public Worlds
In April 1957, photographer Jerry Dantzic had an assignment from Decca Records to photograph Billie Holiday during a weeklong run of performances at the Newark, New Jersey, nightclub Sugar Hill. What unfolded was an unexpected and intimate journey into her private and public worlds. His photos comprise the largest collection of images from any single…
Read MoreAvery Research Center Hosts Roberta Williams Day Of Recognition September 11
The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture will be hosting The Roberta Williams Day of Recognition Reception. Ms. Roberta Williams is a native of Downtown Charleston and daughter of former Avery Student John Harley Williams (c/o 1949 Avery Normal Institute). Ms. Williams has created a legacy for greatness through excellence in sport…
Read More“Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am” Film Screening 2019 Part of MOJA Arts Festival
The Charleston Music Hall and MOJA Arts Festival are pleased to present Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am film screening on Tuesday, October 1st at 7PM. There will be a special introduction and poetry reading by Asiah Mae and Marcus Amaker before the film begins. Tickets for the film are $8 and are on sale now. After a…
Read MoreThree Day Event Planned to Commemorate First African Landing in Virginia
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia In August 1619, more than 20 Africans landed at Old Point Comfort, the present-day Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., and were forced into labor as slaves. That was the beginning of the slave trade in America. This month, 400 years after that humiliating and disgraceful day, the…
Read MoreNew Emmett Till Memory app can’t be vandalized
It was as predictable as hot weather in a Mississippi Delta summer. Once again last month, the shot-up sign marking the spot where the body of civil rights martyr Emmett Till was pulled from the Tallahatchie River was the site of a vandalism controversy. That’s why, in time for the 64th anniversary of his murder on…
Read MoreFifth Annual Cars at the Capital exhibition to feature 1966 Volkswagen Deluxe Station Wagon owned by Esau and Janie B. Jenkins
An out of this world experience from September 12 – 26 will feature two historically significant vehicles: September 12 – 19 Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan Bean’s 1969 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray September 20 – 26 1966 Volkswagen Deluxe Station Wagon owned by Esau and Janie B. Jenkins Each will be a part of the Historic Vehicle…
Read MoreSeason 17 at PURE Theatre to open with World Premiere of “LAST RITES” by Randy Neale
On August 23, 2019, PURE Theatre’s 17th Season will officially kick off with the world premiere of LAST RITES by Randy Neale; a play that considers both the spark that ignited the violence of the Detroit Riots in 1967 and the embers that still burn amid the ashes today. A finalist in the Blue…
Read MoreSpeakers, Entertainment Announced For The 2019 Commemoration Of The First African Landing In Hampton, VA
Virginia’s 2019 Commemoration, American Evolution, in partnership with Fort Monroe Authority, Fort Monroe National Monument, and the City of Hampton, will host the 2019 Commemoration of the First African Landing on August 23-25, 2019 in Hampton, Va. The multi-day event is centered around the 400th anniversary of the landing of the first enslaved Africans in…
Read MoreAlice Walker: Hometown Celebrates Literary Legend’s 75th Birthday
By Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., NNPA Newswire Culture and Entertainment Editor Alice Walker, one of the premiere writers of the 20th Century, was honored in July by her hometown of Eatonton, GA for her 75th Birthday (Alice Walker 75). Hundreds of people flocked from all over the country to Walker’s birthplace to celebrate the birthday of the Pulitzer…
Read MoreTrailer for Upcoming Harriet Tubman Movie Sails Over Ten Million Views in Five Days
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor A movie preview for the upcoming biopic featuring the life of legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman, entitled “Harriet,” was viewed by over ten million people in five days from July 21 to July 26 on Facebook. Another social media post of the same movie trailer on YouTube received over…
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