LOS ANGELES — Now more than ever, “Queen Sugar” actress Bianca Lawson is thankful to work on a nurturing, female-led set helmed by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to NYC for brief run during the holidays | WPIX 11 News
Led by Artistic Director Robert Battle, Ailey’s extraordinary dancers will move audiences with premieres, new productions, repertory favorites and classics like the American masterpiece Revelations, acclaimed as a must-see for all.
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How Josephine Baker Went From Homeless Street Performer to International Superstar, French Resistance Fighter & Civil Rights Hero | Open Culture
Born Freda Josephine McDonald in 1906 to parents who worked as entertainers in St. Louis, Baker’s early years were marked by extreme poverty.
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This Moving Video Featuring Andra Day’s ‘Rise Up’ And Heaven King Takes Mommy-Daughter Goals To A Whole New Level | Essence
In collaboration with Grammy nominee Andra Day, Tianne King is using dance and music to showcase her life raising YouTube sensation Heaven. And beware; it’s a tearjerker.
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Watch: Eartha Kitt spoke truth at a White House luncheon, and got blacklisted | Timeline
Her simple, brutal words about the Vietnam war had the first lady in tears
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The nation’s only African American piano maker counts ‘Empire’ and the Vatican as fans | The Washington Post
“Starting a piano company is not for the faint of heart,” he says. For the first 10 years, he struggled for funding, and he got help with his first patent only after several lawyers passed on it.
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Dig, If You Will, Some Never-Before-Seen Pictures Of Prince In ‘A Private View’ | NPR
Afshin Shahidi misses Prince. “Nothing seemed impossible, everything was possible for him,” he says. “And that’s just the way he lived his life and the way he communicated and wanted us to live our life.”
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The Culture Caught Up With Spike Lee — Now What? | The New York Times Magazine
After more than three decades as a provocateur, the filmmaker has returned to the movie that made him famous.
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Della Reese, Music Icon And ‘Touched By An Angel’ Star, Dead At 86 | Huffington Post
“I know heaven has a brand new angel this day,” costar Roma Downey said.
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Review: ‘Mudbound’ Is a Racial Epic Tuned to Black Lives, and White Guilt | The New York Times
“Mudbound” is a movie about how things change — slowly, unevenly, painfully. It is also, as the title suggests, about how things don’t change, about the stubborn forces of custom, prejudice and power that lock people in place and impede social progress. …”
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