Black History
EVENT: The Role of Black Journalism in the Struggle for Freedom
February 11, 2022Thursday - February 17 - 6 pm Eastern FEATURING: Carole Boyce Davies, Jarvis Tyner, and Amandla Thomas-Johnson.
Read more‘The Cultivators’: African American art and history, a superb exhibition in Malibu
January 31, 2022If you are anywhere near Los Angeles, or plan to be from now until March 27, you will find a couple of hours no better spent than with a visit to Pepperdine University’s Frederick R. Weisman...
Read moreBlues singer Bessie Smith shines in a new novel in memoir form
January 7, 2022If Bessie Smith’s story itself is an American phenomenon worthy of recapitulating in any number of artistic forms, it’s as a writer that Crittendon shines.
Read more‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’: First Black composer at Metropolitan Opera
October 29, 2021History was made at New York City’s world-famous Metropolitan Opera when it opened the season on September 27 with its first work written by a Black composer, jazz musician, and well-known scorer of many Spike Lee...
Read moreHonors for Hugh Mulzac, the captain who fought Jim Crow, Hitler, and McCarthy
September 29, 2021In 1942, Hugh Mulzac became the first African American man of Caribbean descent to captain a U.S. Merchant Marine ship, the S.S. Booker T. Washington.
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