Some Florida representatives are disappointed after Bruce Antone slammed building the museum on a slave plantation in St. Augustine.
Published by Yale University Press in the US and Penguin in India, it tells the subcontinent’s story from the British Raj to independence and partition.
The Princess in Decatur began as a livery stable back in 1887. Since then it's morphed into a theatre, survived a couple of near-death experiences, and now is an important stop for everything from theatre companies to comedians to musicians.
A person in costume at last year's Black Comic Book Festival. The two-day festival, also known as SchomCom, is back for its 12th year at the Schomburg Center in Harlem starting on Friday. [ more › ]
“Barbenheimer ” is a hard act to follow. The summer of 2023 brought a new enthusiasm for moviegoing, with the fortuitous counterprogramming of “Barbie” and “ Oppenheimer,” and surprise hits like “ Sound of Freedom,” helping the season’s box office crack $4 billion for the first time since 2019. But
We came. We saw. We published. But no list is worth sending out into the world if it doesn't provoke at least a little good-natured disagreement, and our ranking of the 50 best Hollywood books of all time is no exception. So we asked L.A. Times readers to submit their No. 1 picks, as well as their selections for titles we left off. Below you'll find 19 of the best of the rest, supplemented with reader comments about why their chosen title deserved to make the cut. Just one note: We won't be...
A North Las Vegas man who was convicted of stealing casino chips has been added to the Nevada Black Book -- officially called the "List of Excluded Persons" maintained by state gaming officials.
An online petition has garnered over 20,000 signatures to save Station Street from demolition
Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges is an integral part of U.S. history lessons in classrooms nationwide, given her status as the first Black child to integrate an elementary school in the South. But to the right-wing culture warriors behind efforts to ban books about American history—including systemic racism and discrimination against LGBTQ people—Bridges has become […]
Arrest affidavits obtained by the Herald this week reveal more alleged details regarding the violent death of a 2-year-old girl in Killeen last year. The victim’s parents — Ronald Vernon
After much debate on social media, Hulu has unveiled the official trailer for their three-part documentary on the Black Twitter community.
Even though he grew up riding horses in Kansas City, photographer Ivan McClellan never identified with cowboy culture. That changed in the summer of 2015, when McClellan attended his first Black rodeo in Oklahoma, an experience he’s compared to stepping into his own Technicolor Oz. McClellan (who’s based in Portland, Oregon) spent the next few years traveling around the country, meeting the people who would later be featured in his new photo book Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture, which Damiani...