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The Night Shift: Fantasia and Dulé Hill Talk After Midnight
10 years ago

The Night Shift: Fantasia and Dulé Hill Talk After Midnight

Jazz music “still lives, and people need to know that,” says Fantasia, referring to the new foot-stomping Broadway revue After Midnight, in which she costars alongside Dulé Hill (The West …
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Misty Copeland: The Fight Of Her Life
10 years ago

Misty Copeland: The Fight Of Her Life

In her new book, Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Touchstone), Misty Copeland opens up about her rise from poverty to becoming the first African American female soloist in two …
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Soul Divas Live! – a carefully curated playlist
5 years ago

Soul Divas Live! – a carefully curated playlist

By  •  Music

Some of the greatest entertainers the world has ever seen are soul divas from America. In their art, we see and hear pain, resilience, and beauty. Angelic voices, like Aretha …
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Paris The Other Way
9 years ago

Paris The Other Way

Living just steps away from some of Paris’ most revered and well known places – like the Louvre and Notre Dame Cathedral – made for quite the adventure on my …
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Trailblazer Willie Birch anchors new ‘Changing Course’ exhibit
7 years ago

Trailblazer Willie Birch anchors new ‘Changing Course’ exhibit

By  •  Art

The artist Willie Birch grew up in New Orleans before the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, well before the Black Power Movement, and in the throes of the …
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Video Interview: Nona Hendryx’ Transformation Art Exhibit in Harlem
9 years ago

Video Interview: Nona Hendryx’ Transformation Art Exhibit in Harlem

Nona Hendryx is best known as one of the original members the iconic space-age girl group, Labelle.   As in her current exhibition – Transformation: The Beautiful Cruelty …
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Review: Domingo Shines as a Playwright with “DOT”
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9 years ago

Review: Domingo Shines as a Playwright with “DOT”

“There is only one moment of sanity in anyone’s day – coffee,” declares Shelly, the Shealy family’s eldest and primary caretaker for DOT, their matriarch and the title character of …
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Confessions: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
10 years ago

Confessions: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has done what no woman of the Caribbean has— won the Olympic 100 meter gold medal. Twice.

The girl from Waterhouse, one of Kingston’s most infamous and …
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