Starring: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Peter De Anda, Minnie Gentry and Jonelle Allen
Rated: PG Action/Comedy/Crime
Based loosely on the novel, The Heat is On, by Chester Himes, Come Back Charleston Blue is the follow-...
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Issue 2
Starring: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace and Redd Foxx
Rated: R Action/Comedy
Based on the novel of the same title by the inimitable Chester Himes, this film is colorful, well-presented and action-p...
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Larry Leon Hamlin, the late founder of the National Black Theatre Festival®) (NBTF), created the word “marvtastic”, a portmanteau of “marvelous” and “fantastic”, to define, “there is nothing greater or better than”; this especiall...
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California ... land of golden sunrises, azure waters and days that seem to go on forever. Hopefully, Black culture comes to mind and the California African American Museum (CAAM) has been working diligently to this end.
Presently locate...
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“Black
music is such a reflection of what is going on in Black life …”
&...
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On February 18, 1894, Paul Revere Williams was born to Chester and Lila Williams. The family had recently relocated from Memphis to Los Angeles. By the time that Paul had turned two years old, Chester had suffered and passed away from ...
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Born on December 31, 1900, in Mooresville, North Carolina, Selma Hortense Burke was the seventh of ten children born to Reverend Neil and Mary Elizabeth Burke. Her mother stayed at home to rear their family. Her father, who was a minister, o...
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