Tutwiler, a new documentary short directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon (Heroin(e), Recovery Boys) and reported and produced by The Marshall Project’s Alysia Santo, offers an unforgettable window i...
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the lives of people, particularly parents who are often parenting and working simultaneously. Reports of the increased risks of child abuse due to the stress of the societal changes made necessary by ...
To wear or not to wear? After months of going back and forth over whether people should be wearing face masks to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus, the powers that be have settled on the recommendation that people wear face m...
Matthew Cherry’s animated short Hair Love won the 2020 Academy Award for Best Animated short, following in the footsteps of the late basketball star Kobe Bryant whose animated short film Dear Basketball won last year. Watch ...
The New York Times reported E. R. Braithwaite, a Guyanese author, diplomat and former Royal Air Force pilot whose book “To Sir, With Love,” a memoir of teaching in London’s deprived East End, was adapted into a hit 1967 film starr...
Irving Burgie, Songwriter who helped bring Calypso to America has died. Burgie wrote the calypso song “Day-O” (“The Banana Boat Song”) which became a huge hit for singer/actor Harry Belafonte in 1956. Burgie, who went by the name ...
Zozibini Tunzi was crowned Miss Universe Sunday making it the first time Miss America, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe are all black women. In her closing statement, Tunzi stated, “I grew up in a world where a woma...
Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Burton WireTap™, The Burton Wire’s podcast which discusses topics and issues at the intersection of black culture and society. Hosted by The Burton Wire‘s founder & editor-in...
The world is mourning the loss of legendary opera singer Jessye Norman, who has died at the age of 74. The five-time Grammy award-winner, Kennedy Center Honoree (1997) and National Medal of Arts winner, died Monday of septic shock...
The world is still mourning the loss of Nobel Laureate and Princeton University professor Toni Morrison, who died August 6, 2019 at age 88. There has been a proliferation of remembrances and odes to the late lion of literature. In...
