With a motto, “Culture of, by and for the people”, The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) is one of three cultural centers under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. It is located in the Capital Gallery Building at 6...
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Issue 6
Located at 230 N. Leona Street in Pennington Gap, Virginia, the Appalachian African-American Cultural Center, in its former life, was the Lee County Colored Elementary School. This one-room schoolhouse was the only primary school for Blacks in al...
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“Honestly, I can't think of a single other soprano or mezzo-soprano with anything remotely approaching her sound … It was almost like a wall of sound coming at us, but extremely beautiful and consistent.”
~ Renée Fleming, legendary s...
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“The story of Chick Webb is more than the story of a dynamic drummer of the swing era. It’s the story of a gallant little man who overcame physical deformity, hardship and pain. A man whose spirit, courage and determination was perha...
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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 soundtrack is all about love and its accompanying magic in a myriad of tones, from soul to R&B and hip-hop ...
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Vampire in Brooklyn opens with a mysterious ship crashing into a dockyard in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The inspector, Silas Green (John Witherspoon), heads aboard, only to discover it is full of mutilated bodies and is almost att...
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Sugar Hill is about the extreme steps that photographer Diana Hill (Marki Bey) is willing to take for justice!
She is called “Sugar” by those close to her, including her now-fiancé, Langston (Larry D. Johnson), who she recently agreed to ma...
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