On top of playing Michelle Obama for the Showtime series First Ladies, Viola Davis will also play Nanisca, a general of the all-female military unit known as the Amazons. The film, which will be  directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, is set  during the 18th and 19th centuries in the Kingdom of …

Daniel Johnson with his two children. (Daniel Johnson Instagram) Daniel Johnson, 25, made an Instagram video alongside his five-year-old daughter Dakota. They sang about the importance of embracing their blackness. Many on social media called it a heartwarming moment between the father and the daughter and the video soon went …

A 15-year-old Black girl in Michigan was sentenced to a juvenile detention center during the coronavirus pandemic by a judge who reprimanded her for not completing her online homework, thus violating her probation, according to ProPublica Illinois. The Black teenager has been in custody at the Children’s Village juvenile detention …

When The Help was released in 2011, there was some criticism that the film harkened back to an old movie tradition of showcasing Black women as maids and white characters as their saviors. Viola Davis defended her role at the time, which earned her an Oscar nomination. Over the years, …

Courtesy Smithsonian Former employees and board members of the Smithsonian African Art Museum are alleging racism went on behind the scenes. READ MORE: Black Kansas State students are afraid to return to campus after racist tweet HuffPost reports 10 past staff and board members claim the institution has a longstanding …

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While protesting the police killing of Breonna Taylor outside the home of Kentucky District Attorney Daniel Cameron in Louisville, Kentucky, The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams was one of several people arrested on July 14.  The reality star was held in police custody without bond on counts of …

There, 75 years ago this morning, humankind exploded the first nuclear weapon, a cable-encrusted steel sphere nicknamed “the Gadget.” The site took on the code name of the detonation, Trinity, which its architect, J. Robert Oppenheimer, had chosen, inspired by a John Donne holy sonnet: Batter my heart, three-person’d God, …

Oprah Winfrey is going above and beyond to support those who continue to be in need amid the coronavirus pandemic. Now that Los Angeles is seeing the largest number of newly confirmed cases and hospitalizations, the 66-year old media mogul is stepping in to help. On behalf of her Oprah …

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