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W.E.B. Du Bois and collaborators put on an exhibition on the state of black American life for the 1900 Paris Exposition. According to reports, the exhibit consisted…

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Sunday’s Academy Awards was championed by many for its diversity. The program had big wins for people of color. Quite a few also presented awards.…

The head of the Maine Republican Party claims that “hundreds” of unfamiliar black voters may have cast fraudulent ballots in his state on Election Day.…

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The Dark Knight Rises. The Amazing Spider-Man. The Avengers. The summer of 2012 promises to be the year of the superhero with three comic book…

“The Help” became the number one film in the country and has been acclaimed by critics, despite the controversy that’s been sparked in the Black community. Why has this project drawn such a negative reaction? Very few movies with African-American stars are released to the masses, and many were upset that one of the few […]

VIA: HelloBeautiful.com Sex and the City comes out this weekend and women all over the nation are running to the theatre to see the movie that made the weekly meeting of girlfriends at a restaurant to have cocktails, discuss work, love and life the professional woman’s norm. The conversation is usually the same no matter […]

VIA HUFFINGTON POST: In one of the greatest domestic population shifts in American history, African Americans poured out of the South in the early 20th century. The so-called “Great Migration” brought millions of southern blacks to areas across the country, including hundreds of thousands who came to Chicago. The city’s South Side quickly became the […]

Sandra Bullock has been going through it to say the least, and I just found out that the Oscar-winning actress has adopted a black baby.