“At a time when there were few high-profile Black athletes beyond Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis, Coachman became a pioneer. She led the way for female African-American Olympic track stars like Wilma Rudolph, Evelyn Ashford, Florence Griffit...
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Issue 8
“Shani Davis was only two years old when he started to roller skate. He liked the sensation of speed so much that the skating rink monitors had to step in and slow him down. Later on, his parents wisely decided to introduce him to speed skati...
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In this film, Zooman (Khalil Kain) is a callous gang member with a hair-trigger temper. Upon seeing members of a rival gang hanging out in his neighborhood in Brooklyn, he begins shooting at them, regardless of those around. When the sm...
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Set on an island in the Caribbean, The Mighty Quinn is about two men, Xavier Quinn (Denzel Washington) and Maubee (Robert Townsend), who have been great friends since childhood. However, as the years have passed, they have gone separate ways:...
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As one in a collective of five museums at two locations in St. Joseph, Missouri, the Black Archives Museum educates and inspires guests with its focus on and celebration of the city’s African-American residents. Its scope extends from the a...
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Located in the Horace Peterson III Building at 1722 E. 17th Terrace in Kansas City, Missouri, the Black Archives of Mid-America serves as a repository of materials centered upon Blacks in America, especially of Kansas.
Founded by Horace Pe...
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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
Every person has second thoughts … review yours, when grooving to the smoothness of the classic R&B greats, Th...
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