By TaRessa Stovall
May 1961: Between May and December , 436 black and white civil rights activists, many of them students, known as Freedom Riders rode more than 60 bus rides to fight segregated travel facilities in the South and raise the nation’s consciousness about racial injustice.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
On February 23, 2010 at the Director’s Guild of America, Academy Award-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson spoke eloquently about Bill Duke, one of the people she wanted to thank for her Oscar-worthy performance in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Duke, the esteemed actor/director, who acted in such films as Predator and directed such hits as Sister Act II, was being honored that evening for his work as an artist and humanitarian.

By TaRessa Stovall
When news of Lena Horne’s passing on May 9 zoomed through cyberspace and other news media, I found myself most warmed and inspired by a varied bouquet of tributes from people of different generations whose lives she touched in many ways.

By George Alexander
I would lie captivated as Pryor painted vivid pictures of folks who sounded and looked familiar to my African-American world. You could just see them. He could take you to the barbershop, to the shoeshine stand, to the speakeasy even if you’d never had a drink in your life. Yet, it all rang true. It was real.

By Desiree Cooper
My Name is Khan, which tackles the racial profiling of Muslims after September 11, 2001, has broken records for a Bollywood film, grossing more than $19 million worldwide since its Valentine’s Day release, and more than $2 million in its limited release in the United States

By Stacey Patton
First, I’d like to thank members of the Academy for not awarding a slew of Oscars to what New York Press film critic Armond White called “the biggest con job of the year” –Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire