In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre in Phillips County, Arkansas, which took place in October 1919, a century ago this week, may rank as the deadliest. The reasons why the event has remained shrouded and obscure, despite a shocking toll of bloodshed inflicted on the African-American inhabitants of Phillips County, […]
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Byron Allen Strikes $290M Deal To Buy 11 Local Stations From USA Television | Deadline
Dade Hayes, Deadline [dropcap]B[/dropcap]yron Allen’s Entertainment Studios has acquired 11 local TV stations from USA Television for $290 million. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The stations serve small to mid-sized cities (spanning markets ranked No. 79 to No. 188 in the U.S.) and have network affiliations with ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. While the deal’s valuation is a […]
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Chicago Nonprofit Will Award $900,000 to Artists of Color | Artforum.com
Artforum.com, Artforum.com Jeffreen M. Hayes. Photo: Milo Bosh. Featured Image [dropcap]T[/dropcap]hreewalls, a cultural nonprofit that supports visual artists in Chicago, has announced that it will award $900,000 to artists who identify as African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, or Native American (ALAANA). The organization will grant $300,000 per year for the next three years to artists of […]
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Amber Guyger, Ex-Dallas Police Officer, Is Guilty of Murder for Killing Her Neighbor | The New York Times
Ms. Guyger killed her unarmed neighbor, Botham Jean, in his own apartment in 2018. She faces up to 99 years in prison.
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Tuskegee Airman Leslie Edwards dies at Cincinnati VA Hospital | WCPO
WCPO staff, WCPO Leslie Edwards, 93, of Springfield Township, is a Tuskegee Airman who served as a mechanic during World War II. (Photo: The Enquirer/Liz Dufour). Featured Image [dropcap]L[/dropcap]eslie Edwards didn’t talk about his military career during his daughter’s childhood — or her adulthood, for that matter. Imogene Bowers was 50 years old when she […]
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Ga. Woman Pardoned 60 Years After Her Execution | NPR
By Kathy Lohr, All Things Considered, NPR A black maid executed in Georgia in 1945 is being granted a pardon by the state for killing a white man she said enslaved her. Lena Baker said she acted in self-defense, but a jury of white men convicted her after a one-day trial. Baker is the only […]
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‘Central Park Five’ To Trump: Death Penalty Ad Put A ‘Bounty On Our Head’ | HuffPost
While the falsely accused men were honored this week, a publisher dropped one of the prosecutors from the botched case.
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Chicago artist Adedayo Laoye keeps African traditions alive through his work | Rolling Out
By Tony Binns, Rolling Out Adedayo Laoye was born into the royal family of Oba Adetoyese Laoye, in Ede, Nigeria. Laoye was raised in the Yoruba tradition. He studied at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos and Howard University in Washington, D.C. These two institutions molded him toward his professional career. At Yaba, he was […]
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Jessye Norman, Regal American Soprano, Is Dead at 74 | The New York Times
A multiple Grammy Award winner, she was a towering figure on the operatic, concert and recital stages.
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Black broadcast pioneer WGPR honored in history exhibit | Detroit Free Press
By Tim Kiska, Detroit Free Press The timing of a new Detroit Historical Museum exhibit devoted to WGPR-TV (Channel 62), the country’s first African-American-owned television station, could not be better. At a time when Hollywood is debating the lack of diversity among this year’s crop of Academy Award nominations, the exhibit tells the story of […]
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