Located feet away from the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, the mission of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, according to its website, “is to reveal stories of freedom’s heroes, from the era of the Underground Railroad t...
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Built circa 1870 and located at 762 Martin Street in the Southwest Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this three-story, Italianate brick house was the home of African-American vocal great, civil rights activist and ph...
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Born on July 3, 1923, in Houma, Louisiana, John Maurice Hartman was reared in Chicago, Illinois. His close-knit family moved to “The Windy City” during The Great Migration when John was an infant, the youngest of six children. As w...
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On May 1, 1934, Shirley Valerie Horn was born in Washington, D.C. Her parents created a musical household: her father, an accounting clerk, and her mother, a homemaker, often sang love songs around their home. In a Jazz Times interview...
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“Black
music is such a reflection of what is going on in Black life …”
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Starring: Howard Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Dennis Lipscomb and Denzel Washington
Rated: PG Crime/Drama/Mystery
Set on a racially-segregated military base in rural Louisiana during World War II, A Soldier’s Story is a film adapted from Cha...
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Starring: Lonette McKee, Irene Cara, Philip Michael Thomas, Dwan Smith and Dorian Harewood
Rated: PG Drama/Music
In this typical success story that illustrates the hard struggle to transcend from nothing to something, Sparkle is the ficti...
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