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Famosos elogian a la pionera Cicely Tyson
January 30, 2021Cicely Tyson seleccionaba estratégicamente papeles poderosos con la intención de elevar la forma en la que son percibidos los actores negros. Una generación más joven de actrices negras — Viola Davis, Kerry Washington y Zendaya entre...
Read moreCentering Black life: Groundbreaking filmmaker John Singleton dies at age 51
April 30, 2019Singleton’s films centering the Black experience will live on, inspiring future Black storytellers and showing that these stories can be told, despite the odds.
Read more“Dayveon”: Growing up poor and Black in rural Arkansas
September 15, 2017Dayveon, the central character in Amman Abbasi’s new film, is a study in contrasts. He lives amidst great beauty and great danger.
Read moreLangston Hughes: Working-class voice for equality, peace and socialism
May 25, 2017Langston Hughes is justifiably known as the Poet Laureate of the African-American people. He died May 22, 1967 in New York City.
Read moreWhy Chicago’s Black Ensemble Theater matters: Creativity in the age of Trump
December 31, 2016Celebrating 40 years of Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater, the only theater in the U.S. whose mission is to eradicate racism.
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