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Taraji P. Henson has been cast to play Katherine Johnson in a Fox 2000 film entitled Hidden Figures, according to Variety.

Many predicted that this year’s Academy Awards would go to great lengths to celebrate diversity after the #OscarsSoWhite controversy came to a head last year. Fortunately, this year saw a surplus of quality content starring Black actors and actresses for the Academy to choose from. As a result, Black Hollywood was celebrated in front of […]

I remember the first time I had my intelligence questioned by a peer like it was yesterday; I had just won the regional spelling bee when a classmate, a non-Black person of color, started a rumor that my accomplishments were simply a result of me smoking marijuana. I was 14, and had never smoked a […]

By: Imani J. Jackson When a movie theatre packed with people of varied races, ethnicities, ages and genders erupts into simultaneous applause and cheers during a film’s closing credits, it’s safe to say the story resonated. That human happiness is exactly what manifested on Saturday when my mother, a grandmotherly elder, my younger sister and […]

A new film is drawing a lot of attention because it depicts the Black women who were behind the Project Mercury and Apollo 11 missions. The film, called Hidden Figures, is important for many reasons. But, mainly, because it adds complexity to the ways that we envision Black womanhood and the histories that brought us […]

“Hidden Figures,” a film about the three black female NASA employees that helped send the first American into orbit in 1972, has just cast its final member of the leading trio – Janelle Monae. 

by Donnie Moreland  “We hummed a celebration for living. For fighting. For refusing to die. For enduring when giving up would be easier. For believing, against all odds, that we’d get home someday.”  —The Coming; Daniel Black “It’s nothing like losing one’s keys. It’s not as if he has been misplaced. It’s not as simple […]

The following piece of from EBONY. It was written by Dr. Cornel West and Rev. Osagyeo Sekou.  By: Dr. Cornel West and Rev. Osagyefo Sekou  The blood of Michael Brown has seeded the soil of a great American revolution—sprouting yearlings of new black leadership onto the political and public landscape.  The Ferguson Rebellion has exposed […]

  Celebrations for Michael Jackson’s birthday kicked off on Thursday in his native city of Gary, Indiana. What started off as just a simple block party has morphed into an annual three-day festival that stretches beyond 2300 Jackson St. in honor of the King of Pop.

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