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‘Beyond The Gates’ set to become first Black-led daytime soap

History is being made this week with the premiere of America's first Black-led daytime soap, NBC News reports. "Beyond the Gates" will debut on CBS...

Dress for Success® Worldwide launches Women Who Inspire campaign

Dress for Success Ambassador Scarlett Johansson joins the 2025 Women Who Inspire campaign, honoring 31 women throughout March and raising vital funds to support...

Grammy-winning R&B singer Roberta Flack dead at 88

Grammy Award-winning singer Roberta Flack has died, per PEOPLE. She was 88. Flack died on Monday (February 14) surrounded by family members, according to a...

Remembering Black music powerhouses: Roberta Flack, Gwen McCrae, Jerry Butler

ROBERTA FLACK, GWEN MCCRAE, JERRY BUTLER Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning sing­er and pianist whose smooth vocals and in­timate style made her a defining artist of...

Collection of short plays entitled ‘Love Is…’ debuts Feb. 28  

Bridgette Perdue, ATC Executive Director On Friday, Feb. 28, Alumni Theater Company, 6601 Hamilton Avenue, will debut “Love Is....,” a collection of short plays directed...

HBO’s “Eyes on the Prize III” revisits Black America’s modern civil rights struggles

  HBO is set to debut “Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest” (1977-2015), the latest chapter of the groundbreaking documentary series...

Nat King Cole’s often overlooked role in the Civil Rights Movement

Nat King Cole performs in Copenhagen, Denmark, in April 1960. Ebbe Wrae/JP Jazz Archive/Getty Images by Donna M. Cox, University of Dayton Six decades after Nat...

Trump seizes control of Kennedy Center, tightening grip on American institutions

In a further step toward consolidating power and turning America into a dictatorship, President Donald Trump has taken control of the John F. Kennedy...

Jerry Butler, soul legend and former Cook County commissioner dies at 85

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons They called Jerry Butler the “Iceman” for his cool, velvety voice. But the world-renowned singer, songwriter, producer, and lifelong Chicagoan embodied...

This Week In Black History Feb 19-25, 2025

FEBRUARY 19   1919—The “first” Pan African Congress is held bringing together prominent Blacks from throughout the world to chart a program for Black unity and...

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