The Nigerian hit film tackles social issues through an action plot. Screengrab/Anakle Films/Netflix/YouTube
by Ezinne Ezepue, University of Nigeria
Nigerian thriller The Black Book has been in...
by Arika Linton, Chicago Defender Contributing Writer
Seven-time Grammy Award Winning Empress of Soul Gladys Knight brought the house down in front of a sold-out...
THE BANJO by HENRY OSSAWA TANNER
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1917—“Dizzy” Gillespie, bandleader and pioneer of “B-bop Jazz,” is born John Birks Gillespie in Cheraw, S.C.
1945—Actor, singer, activist...
In Minneapolis, the memorial near the spot where George Floyd died while in police custody. Getty Images / Kerem Yucel/File
Against a backdrop of “anti-woke” actions...
by Marc H. Morial
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—“Extraordinarily proud of Laphonza Butler - a stalwart for women, workers, the disadvantaged, and those in search of a better life....
Black leaders from Chicago and beyond had issued statements over the brutal, hate-fueled stabbing death of a six-year-old boy in a Southwestern Chicago suburb.
Wadea...
Oprah Winfrey reportedly considered running with Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on a unity ticket in 2020 to prevent Former President Donald Trump from being...
