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In “Pretty Blind,” Jennie Bovard stars as a woman with albinism, like herself, while a former Wall Streeter goes home to run ...
Several years ago, two African American women, Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills, decided to do some research on the history of the central New Jersey region commonly known as Sourland.
Shaudi Bianca Vahdat, an Iranian American artist, spoke with Real Change about the importance of representation in art and ...
Equity actors for roles in George Street Playhouse's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown). No roles will be understudied. Please ...
Akron African American Festival highlights include entertainment, food, community groups and vendors and free wellness screenings. Megan Becka, special to cleveland.com ...
Rising Above Bias to Become the First African American Grand Slam Champion Althea Gibson shattered barriers in tennis and beyond by becoming the first Black athlete to win major titles and blaze a ...
Ten new historical markers commemorating African American history in Staunton and Augusta County were unveiled at Montgomery Hall Park. The markers highlight various aspects of local African ...
We are of African American heritage.” In 1989 the columnist and historian Roger Wilkins told Isabel Wilkerson: “Whenever I go to Africa, I feel like a person with a legitimate place to stand ...
The slang meaning of the word probably did not originate in the LGBTQ+ community, according to William Leap, an American University professor emeritus ... we have of gay men’s vocabulary from the ’20s ...
The late 1980s and early 1990s were when Black filmmakers and actors finally started getting the recognition they richly deserved after decades of work that warranted it. Here is a look at classic ...
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History will host the 2025 African World Festival in Detroit's Hart Plaza from July 18-20. The event celebrates the African diaspora and marks the ...
NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani faced backlash after a leaked college application revealed he once identified as African American.