Vinnette Justine Carroll was born in New York City, New York to Edgar Edgerton and Florence (née Morris) Carroll on March 11, 1922. At the age of three years old, her family moved to Jamaica, where they spent much of her youth. Her par...
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On December 22, 1905, in Baltimore, Maryland, James Amos Porter was born to John and Lydia Porter. His parents were professionals who held significant status in their community. His father, a minister, was prominent in the African Metho...
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“Black music is such a reflection of what is going on in Black life …”
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Inspired by the novel, The Great Gatsby, authored by F. Scott Fitzgerald, G details the story of “Summer G” (Richard T. Jones) and Sky Townsend (Chenoa Maxwell).
The film is primarily narrated by Tre (Andre Royo), a journal...
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Wattstax, directed by Mel Stuart and filmed by David L. Wolper, was a film that chronicled a benefit concert put on by the Stax Records company for the 7th Annual Watts Summer Festival. The festival was created to commemorate the riots that o...
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“I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I’m changing the things I cannot accept.”
~ Angela Davis, author, academic, political activist and professor emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz
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The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture is, according to its website, “the authentic voice of African American art, history and culture in Maryland … (it) celebrates the significant accomplishments and st...
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In Baltimore, Maryland, on November 20, 1910, a baby girl was born to William H. and Anne Fitzgerald Murray; they named her Anna Pauline Murray and she was called “Pauli” for short. Her father, a graduate of Howard University, a historica...
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On December 2, 1891, Charles Harris Wesley was born to Charles Snowden and Mathilda Harris Wesley in Louisville, Kentucky. An exceptionally bright and industrious young man, he excelled in learning, to the extent that, in 1911, he graduated f...
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