Historian Janice Canaday Returns to Colonial Williamsburg After its COVID-19 Shutdown
Janice Canaday has been a historian at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia for twelve years, but she has been a part...
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Shonda Rhimes is Telling Timely New Stories. This Time, They’re Podcasts
From the makers of the hit TV series “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal” comes … a whole slate of new podcasts....
Chyna Robinson Named “Female Filmmaker to Watch,” Debuts First Film at ABFF
The industry celebrated as the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) announced yesterday their lineup for this year’s highly anticipated festival...
In Chicago, A Team of Black Rowers Reunites to Inspire Community
In the late 1990s on the West Side of Chicago, sirens, gunshots and screams were the soundtrack of the night....
The Artist Behind Obama’s ‘Hope’ Poster Has a New Piece to Inspire Change
Wyatt Closs has always believed that art could inspire change and action, even as a kid when he ran for...
Alicia Keys Producing PBS Documentary on Legendary Black Female Entertainers
Alicia Keys will do her part in paying homage to legendary Black female entertainers who came before her in an...
TV Networks Pledged to Improve Diversity in 1999. Will This Time Be Any Different?
Kweisi Mfume was not having it when he declared war on broadcast TV. Mfume was president of the NAACP in...
CBS Television Studios and NAACP Strike Deal to Develop Programming
CBS Television Studios and the NAACP have entered into a multiyear agreement to develop and produce scripted and unscripted programming...
‘The Chi’ Creator Lena Waithe Talks Gets More Influence on the Show’s Current Season
Last month writing in Variety, Lena Waithe proposed an idea for tackling Hollywood’s persistent lack of diversity. If companies are...