“And if there’s one player who badly deserves to become a household name, it’s Walter Tull – a trailblazer for Tottenham Hotspur, a Black British player who defied the ingrained bigotry of his day to win plaudits in football (soccer) AND be...
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Issue 3
“Hazel Johnson’s accomplishments were diverse and noteworthy.”
~ Mary T. Sarnecky, author, Army Women’s Foundation
On October 10, 1927 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, a baby girl was born to Clarence L. and Garnett (née Henley) J...
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Set in an urban neighborhood in Washington, D.C., The Meteor Man is centered around Jefferson Reed (Robert Townsend). An elementary educator, he teaches with his good friend, Michael Anderson (Eddie Griffin). Unfortunately, his communit...
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The Five Heartbeats is a fictionalized account about the trials and triumphs of a singing quintet of friends. They are Donald “Duck” Matthews (Robert Townsend), the leader and composer of many of their songs; his older brother, J.T. Matthews ...
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“There are all forms of it that we forgotten … I want to remind people that Black music is amazing …”
~ Robert Glasper
This playlist contains everything from the nouveau soul sounds of D’Angelo and the hip grit of Curtis Mayfield fro...
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The largest museum in New England that is, according to its website, “dedicated to preserving, conserving and interpreting the contributions of African Americans”, the Museum of African American History (MAAH) has several sites in Massachus...
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Opening in 1999, the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum is presently located at 1925 Vermont Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. Its purpose is preservation and presentation of the accounts and contributions of those 209,145 members of ...
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