’63 Boycott’: GPB Offers Free Online Screening of Civil Rights Doc
In 1963, 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation. '63 Boycott connects the forgotten story of one of the largest Northern civil...
International Black Theatre Summit Celebrates 200th Anniversary of Black Theater
BOSTON, MA – September 10, 2021 – The International Black Theatre Summit, a special initiative of The CRAFT Institute, held this year in collaboration...
A Kofi Awoonor Poem: ‘We Have Found a New Land’
We Have Found a New Land by Kofi Awoonor
The smart professionals in three piece
Sweating away their humanity in dribblets
And wiping the blood...
Miss Foxy: Transgender Inmate’s Advice to Gay Teen Overlooked
The Internet has been ablaze ever since an inmate featured on A&E TV's 'Beyond Scared Straight," uttered her now trademark line "I was waiting for...
Oscar Pistorius Found Guilty of Culpable Homicide
Celebrated athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide in the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. Culpable...
Carnival and Jouvert: A Repository of Spirit, Community and Culture
It was a beautiful crisp day. A perfect sky absent of clouds and filled to the brim with the deepest blues. It hung so...
Ethiopian Singer Eyob Mekonnen Dies at 37
BBC Africa is reporting that Ethiopian singer Eyob Mekonnen has died. The popular reggae singer suffered a stroke last Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital,...
Dr. Myles and Ruth Munroe: Funeral Will Be Held on Dec. 4
Leonardo Blair of the Christian Post is reporting that Dr. Myles Munroe and his wife Ruth will be laid to rest on December 4...
‘Banshee’: Multicultural Cast Shares Thoughts on Race in America
Banshee doesn’t sound like much on the surface. It’s an hour-long Friday night series that chronicles an ex-con Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) who relocates...
A Kofi Awoonor Poem: 'We Have Found a New Land'
We Have Found a New Land by Kofi Awoonor
The smart professionals in three piece
Sweating away their humanity in dribblets
And wiping the blood...
