Over 11K music fans have voted on the 120+ Greatest Black Female Singers. Current Top 3: Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald
Drawing on interviews with Black women who sang in all-female vocal groups during the late 1950s and early 1960s, I examine the important role played by integrated public and private schools in the formation of the 1960s girl group phenomenon. From talent shows to choir practi...
Vonetta McGee co-stars as the female bounty hunter Thomasine who resumes an old romance with outlaw Bushrod (Julien). Amid changes transforming the country at the beginning of the twentieth century, the “wild” west of the 1900s is gradually being tamed. It’s still a hard place to make...
That quarter-final ended with the elimination of the other remaining female contestant, the Seashell, who turned out to be Tamera Mowry.The Black Swan and the five remaining fellows are all showcased on the special episode of “The Masked Singer” airing April 28: “The Sing-a-Long: The ...
Players entering the competition were matched up with a DM in groups of three to five, with the first person to reach the final goal out of all the entrants winning the contest. To hear Cain tell it, the Monk in question lined up with their fellow players, went invisible, and took off...
I am old enough to remember the “Black is beautiful” activism of the 60s that purported to improve the self-image of blacks. No more hair straighteners, but corn rows, no more skin lightening treatments, and less overtly expressed but clear: no more inter-racial dating for black men. ...
Don't miss these films and television series, from somber and thought-provoking to moving to hilarious, that weave together diverse threads of the Black experience.
Survey participants were recruited through community partners and listservs in our city, a housing program, a PrEP clinic, local LGBTQ advocacy groups, and other community organizations working with young people. To ensure that the perspectives of youth, those on PrEP, and those who identify as ...
After years spent in such folk supergroups as Po' Girl and Our Native Daughters, Allison Russell went solo with 2021'sOutside Child. Across one of the best albums of the young decade, Russell compartmentalizes past trauma and abuse from her childhood. When it comes to three or more chords...
and collapse of the state has led to Boko Haram. The two minute scene explored sex trafficking and child soldiers, two war crimes that fuel groups like Boko Haram and the Lord’s Resistance Army (which was a warped version of Christianity). Asha Noor, a Somali American community organizer ...