By Mark Lassiter
I remember a deliberate and slow walk home, with the Converse box tucked under my arm, hopeful that my friends would be playing outside, just to witness my prized possession firsthand

By TaRessa Stovall
The internationally-acclaimed star of stage and screen, who remained a sex symbol well into her 70s, passed away on Christmas Day at age 81 from cancer. She leaves a legacy of ageless beauty, captivating talent, fierce intelligence and a courageous heart.

The entertainment industry, particularly television, remains a landscape of limited opportunities for black Americans and other people of color, according to a report released December 18 by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The NAACP study, the latest of a series it’s done on Hollywood, asserted that people of color face “employment and [...]

Just before Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington, folk singer/songwriter and civil rights activist Odetta set the tone with her song, “I’m On My Way.”  King, who described her as the “Queen of American Folk Music,” had asked her to accompany him to [...]

“I will sing until the last day of my life.”
So Miriam Makeba predicted, and so she did. The gorgeous South African songbird known and loved worldwide as “Mama Africa” and “The Empress of South Africa,” collapsed shortly after sharing her musical messages of love, equality and freedom at a November 9 charity concert near Naples, [...]