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LOS ANGELES, CA.- Flanked by more than 100 construction workers, philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa celebrated the placement today of the final steel beams …
CHICAGO (AP) — Terry Glover, the managing editor of Ebony magazine, has died of colon cancer at her Chicago home. She was 57. Ebony announced on its website that Glover …
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The Huffington Post  | By Ellie Krupnick Posted: 11/02/2012 9:56 am EDT Updated: 11/02/2012 10:03 am EDT As far as sheer dresses go, Halle Berry has serious cred. After all, …
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When you’ve had the kind of 2009 that Kanye West endured, only to return the following year to promote your new album, how do you organize your charm offensive to …
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The Huffington Post  | By Mallika Rao Posted: 10/24/2012 3:29 pm Updated: 10/24/2012 4:02 pm Currently when you google the phrase “Diego Koi,” the majority of the links thrown back …
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LOS ANGELES — The rebirth of black independent film is taking place in a small office in the San Fernando Valley. This is where filmmaker Ava DuVernay and her …
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Romare Bearden, American, 1911-1988, Out Chorus, 1979-80, etching and aquatint, 12 3/8 x 16 1/4 in. (image), Edition 200.© Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. GLENS FALLS, NY.- …
Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859–1937), The Annunciation, 1898. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, purchased with the W.P. Wilstach Fund, 1899, W1899-1-1 HOUSTON, TX.- A major exhibition …
YouTube comedy darling, Issa Rae, has had a whirlwind year. From a super successful round of fundraising to launch the second season of the uber-popular YouTube series, “Awkward Black …
“On Black Art” by Ron Karenga Black Art must be for the people, by the people and from the people. That is to say, it must be functional, collective and …
The Huffington Post | By Cavan Sieczkowski Posted: 10/17/2012 2:24 pm EDT Updated: 10/17/2012 2:24 pm EDT St. Louis Zoo officials removed a Halloween ghost display after some viewers called …
 The Huffington Post  | By Julee Wilson Posted: 10/17/2012 12:48 pm EDT “Why Do You Have Black Dolls?” is the title and question being tackled in a new short …
HALE WOODRUFF (1900 – 1980) Landscape Near Grasse. Oil on canvas, 1930. 457×550 mm; 18×21 5/8 inches. Incised signature, lower left recto. Signed in pencil, lower right verso. Titled …
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The photographs of Howard Schatz are exhibited in museums and photography galleries internationally and are included in innumerable private collections. He has received international acclaim for his work which has …
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Pushing her meal cart into the hospital room, a research assistant hands out tall glasses of reddish-pink liquid, along with a gentle warning: “Remember, you guys have to finish all …
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