This vast private collection of Africa Diaspora, especially African-American, culture curated by husband-and-wife, Bernard and Shirley (née Pooler) Kinsey is critical to better understanding the innumerable contributions that persons of African de...
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Issue 14
Established in 1992, AFRICA OYÉ is the largest celebration of African culture, including music, in the United Kingdom!
Numerous are the historical and contemporary negative representations, such as corruption, disease, poverty and violen...
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“Mrs. Johnson [was] smart enough as a businesswoman, as a visionary, to take color and translate it to the needs of women of many hues … Everything with Mrs. Johnson became a celebration of who we are, of who Black women were.”
~ Andre Leo...
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“No one has a story like Dapper Dan. His evolution from hustler to fashion icon is the stuff of legend.”
~ Janelle Okwodu, journalist, Vogue
On August 8, 1944 a baby boy was born in the Harlem community of the Manhattan borough to R...
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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
Let’s hear where this playlist of music will take us …!
Chuck Berry – “A Teenage Wedding/You Can Never Te...
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Message From the King is about the journey that Jacob King (Chadwick Boseman) undertakes to locate his sister, Bianca (Sibongile Mlambo). Living in Cape Town, South Africa, he receives a distressed message from her, stating she is in serious trou...
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n this romantic drama, upcoming singing sensation Noni Jean (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is struggling to battle the demands of her professional and personal life. Complicating these aspects are her overbearing “mom-ager”, Macy (Minnie Driver), and indu...
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