Happy Black Women’s History Month! Flavor Flav gave a nod to hip-hop’s femcees and Beyoncé win’s iHeartRadio’s Innovator Award.
Jazz Appreciation Month was created in 2001 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. April was selected because a lot of jazz greats were born this month, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Charles Mingus, and Herbie Hancock. This year, JAM is a celebration of Ellington, because 2024 marks his 125th birthday. Also in April, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization—often referred as UNESCO—celebrates...
Not far from a birthplace of the Black Lives Matter movement, a school district convulses after Black history and literature classes are canceled. By Frances Madeson, for Capital and Main The protests and student walkouts have stopped as an uneasy calm settles over St. Charles County, Missouri, after the community’s all-white school board threatened to eliminate both a Black history class and Black literature class, saying the curriculum contained elements of critical race theory. As...
Donald Bogle’s “Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks” is considered the standard text on Black characters in American movies. But when the book was first published, in 1973, it was just about the only text on the subject. This might be hard to imagine today, when books about the intersection of race and cinema flow forth on a regular basis (among the strongest in recent years are Will Haygood’s “Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World” and Robin R. Means Coleman’s...
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed‘s prison sentence has been determined. On April 15, the 26-year-old was ordered to spend 18 months at a New Mexico
Blackmore became the first female jockey to win the race after finishing first on Minella Times.
An Interpol "black notice" has been issued by police to seek information
An Interpol "black notice" has been issued by police to seek information
Marie Bedard, operations manager for the Defense Health Information Technology (DHIT) division of Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic, was recently honored as a winner of a 2023 Leading for Impact, Women in Leadership Award by G2Xchange and FORUM, formerly known as FedHealthIT. The award recognizes women creating a positive impact and leading organizations and mission-focused strategic programs across the Federal Civilian, Federal Health, Military Health, Technology and Consulting...
Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed's prison sentence has been determined. On April 15, the 26-year-old was ordered to spend 18 months at a New Mexico correctional facility after being found guilty
Jury trial against military contractor CACI over ‘sadistic, blatant and wanton abuses’ comes 20 years after scandal brokeThe first trial to contend with the post-9/11 abuse of detainees in US custody begins on Monday, in a case brought by three men who were held in the US-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.The jury trial, in a federal court in Virginia, comes nearly 20 years to the day that the photographs depicting torture and abuse in the prison were first revealed to the public, prompting an...
Beyonce has made history once again. Her latest album, the epic “Act ll: Cowboy Carter,” hit No. 1 on the Billboard country albums chart, making her the first Black woman to top the chart since its 1964 inception.