Beasts of the Southern Wild is set on the fictional Isle de Charles Doucet. Called the “Bathtub”, this community is in the Louisiana bayou and isolated from the rest of “civilization” by a levee.
This unique and powerful film is ...
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Issue 10
Spanning the 1980s and 1990s in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts, Blue Hill Avenue is centered upon the close friendship of four: Tristan (Allen Payne), E-Bone (William L. Johnson), Money (Aaron D. Spears) and Simon (Michael Taliferro)....
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In 1985, Coretta Scott King, the widow of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., requested scholar and historian Clayborne Carson to act as the senior editor of a forthcoming collection of her late husband’s writings.
Carson readily understo...
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Situated among Auburn, Edgewood, Irwin, Jackson and Randolph Avenues in Atlanta, Georgia, The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site is a complex of buildings integral to the life and legacy of the esteemed Nobel Peace Prize recipient. ...
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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
From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C., from New Orleans, Louisiana to the Harlem community in the Manh...
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“He was just an indomitable advocate for Black people, whether it was getting them to vote, getting them on juries, desegregating the schools, having a Black Santa in the mall, getting Black people to run for office. So over the course of his l...
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“While we may have faced challenges on the bench, when Connie lifted her voice, her life was on the line … Yet time and time again, she lifted her voice higher and higher, arguing cases in hostile towns, against hostile lawyers, and before host...
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