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Tailoring Black Style,” a tribute to Black dandyism, its cultural roots, and the books that define its legacy.
Sidney Poitier's Half Black, half Cherokee Indian companion in the Made for TV Movie named Children of the Dust in 1995. Since then, Michasha Armstrong has gone on to do strong appearances in feature ...
The Saturday matinee is, “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang," a 1932 powerhouse classic based on writings by a chain gang escapee.
I explained in part 32 of this series, which was published on April 3, that I wanted to make Mabel Wagner’s book Lest I Forget better known. Many of the mere 1,000 copies printed in Florida in 2012 ...
Virginia, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner was released starring an all-star cast that included Sidney Poitier as a Black man engaged to a white woman played by Katharine Houghton. Houghton's ...
Hondo Flemming, model and actor The moment: Sidney Poitier at the Academy Awards when he made history as the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar on April 13, 1964. “Whenever Sidney ...
Ralph has shared the screen with legends like Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, and Robert De Niro. Off-screen, Ralph is a trailblazing advocate. She founded the D.I.V.A ...
His connections to London’s theatre world run deep: For instance, he became an executive producer of Ryan Calais Cameron’s play Retrograde, about Sidney Poitier’s early acting career ...
For Colman Domingo, it shaped his connection to his style, his cultural heritage, and his powerful mindset as a Black man in America. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art's morning preview of Superfine: ...
All 14 children arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a boy died in a fire have been released on police bail, officers said. Layton Carr, 14, was found dead near the site of a fire at ...
The parents of the children — 8-year-old twins and a 10-year-old — were reportedly arrested after they were rescued on April 28 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...
SIDNEY, Ohio (WDTN) — Sidney is looking to keep its roads safe and up to date this election day, with a street levy that would also help balance the city’s budget. On May 6, residents in ...