She has also hosted four series of the BBC Radio 2 show Beverley's Gospel Nights, which explores the origins and impact of gospel music. To date the show has run for four seasons and has featured interviews with stars such as Michelle Williams and Shirley Caesar. Knight is an amba...
The magazine – the first of its kind – includes poems and stories that speak of Black achievement and history, while also showcasing children’s writing. Although much of American children’s literature published near the turn of the last century – and even today – filters childhood through...
Over 11K filmgoers have voted on the 100+ people on Best African American Film Actors. Current Top 3: Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Samuel L. Jackson ...
Harvey hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show (radio), Family Feud, the Miss Universe competition, and Fox’s New Year’s Eve. Other hosting duties included Showtime at the Apollo, Little Big Shots, Steve Harvey (talk show), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and Steve Harvey’s Funderdome. ...
As an academic who has fastidiously examined black political and social struggle in this country, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has been able to aptly show the keen connection between state violence and poverty (“Perhaps American violence is most acutely evident in the extreme inequality that exists here...
And, remember: everyone is self-evolving themselves, consciously or unconsciously regardless of whether they are the Greatest American Yet (MLK), or among the most deplorable ever (DJT). Usually, people just spend their time reinforcing their culture’s prejudices, and here we are. As to what...
There are a lot of American solders in Saudi. We also got to spend the day with an American lady who married a Saudi and moved here 17 years ago. She has learned to manage the restrictions with the benefits, and shared her life with us, from sending her daughters to Saudi school ...
In Never Look an American in the Eye, Ndibe stitches together a sweeping panorama of a life lived, and of a dying era, gentrified by technology and the sheer passage of time. We remember the radio, the first television, of grainy images of America’s stereotypes galloping into our consciou...
7 Mirroring Haley’s narrative arc, the series followed the family histories of Gates and eight other well-known African-American figures as they were traced back from the present day through slavery. The show’s climax came with the revelation of the guests’ African origins via DNA analysis,...
Rev. Al Sharpton also hosts a daily radio show, a national cable news television show and he is an established author. Adenah Bayoh Entrepreneurship Award | 2017 Honoree Adenah Bayoh embodies the American dream. At age 13, she escaped the civil war in her native country of Liberia, ...