THE 2016 ELECTIONS If my polling site in Central Harlem exemplified the Black voter turnout across America, then tomorrow will be less dystopian than it was...
James Earl Jones is Driving Miss Daisy on Broadway James Earl Jones sat onstage at the New York Times‘ TimesTalks program and told the audience: “I...
Time is running out to check out Denzel Washington’s powerful performance in the hit revival of Fences. His acclaimed role as patriarch Troy, in the first...
If you ever wondered what Black men struggle with in our communities, wonder no more. Go and see Through The Night at the Riverside Theatre. This...
2009 was an absolutely phenomenal year for Blacks in theater from off-Broadway to Broadway. If you came by the way of Brooklyn, you got to enjoy...
By Fern GillespieHalle Bailey’s face was on the screen, swimming through the corals for mere seconds. That was all that...
By Timothy V. Johnsonpeoplesworld.orgEsther Cooper Jackson was part of an “astonishingly excellent cohort of Black women of an earlier generation,...
celebrates the anniversary of his Passing, this Saturday,August 27, in Great Barrington, Mass. W.E.B. Du Bois often wrote that he...
By History.com EditorsThe March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people...
In the 1970s, fresh off a Broadway Tony Award nomination for the musical “Raisin,” Ralph Carter, a Black teen from...
By Maitefa AngazaAt this time each year activists and advocates across the nation observe Black August. It was first organized...
Yaa Asantewaa Nzingha “If you are the son of a man who had a wealthy estate and you inherit your...
More than history is underfoot in Central Park where Seneca Village thrived from 1825 to 1853. For more than two...