“Kasi’s very smart. She’s brilliant and she’s a visionary, you know? She always stretches the bounds of creativity with everything that she does.”
~ Terence Blanchard, Grammy Award-winning composer
Karen “Kasi” ...
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Issue 4
“Matty has wonderful instincts, and that’s not a slight, that’s a compliment (to) someone who doesn’t have the breadth of experience or even the training …”
~ Paris Qualles, Screenwriter
Born on November 26, 1971 in the Brook...
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Based on the best-selling 1983 novel by Ernest J. Gaines, A Gathering of Old Men is a film centered upon racial discrimination, justice and loyalty.
Set in rural Louisiana during the 1970s, it opens with the discovery of the body of Beau Boutan ...
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Based on the award-winning and critically-acclaimed 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a story that follows the extensive life of its protagonist.
The film opens with Miss Jane Pittman (Cicely Tyson) celebr...
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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
On this list, you can enjoy everything from the lush soul of Heatwave and the innovative New Jack sound created by T...
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Located at 4386 Highway 494 in Bermuda, Louisiana, the Oakland Plantation, Creole National Historical Park is only one of two National Bicentennial Farms located west of the Mississippi River. It and the Magnolia Plantation, both of the Natch...
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Founded by John O’Neal, Gilbert Moses, and Doris Derby at Tougaloo College in Madison County, Mississippi in 1963, the Free Southern Theater (FST) was a cultural, performing arts and educational extension of the Civil Rights and Black Arts Moveme...
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