The movie I came up with was Robert Townsend’s “The Five Heartbeats,” the movie that was number 2 on my ten best list back in 1991 (behind “Boyz N The Hood”). I should explain what “Blackfamous” is.

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Being “woke” has become an insult. Yet, the word’s original intent was to praise those people who have “woken up” to the ...

56 years later: Student remembers the integration of Greenville Co. schools, Jesse Jackson's legacy ...

The Justice Department has petitioned to join a lawsuit challenging LAUSD's decades-old desegregation policy that provides ...

On Hard Knock Radio, I sat down with Jelani Cobb”dean of Columbias Journalism School, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, and a thinker rooted in Hip Hops habit of connecting dots across time. We ...

Valentine II, bequeathed his collection of historical objects, the Wickham House (pictured right) and an endowment of $50,000 ...

As the semiquincentennial nears, Philadelphia’s cultural institutions are examining the country’s founding through the lens of local Black history.

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The latest iteration of the contemporary arts festival positions rhythm as a way of listening to under-heard stories.

An Oklahoma lawmaker who used to be a teacher and librarian has spoken out against expanding the state’s parental choice tax ...