Awadagin Pratt ~ J.S. Bach – Prelude and Fugue in Ab Major BWV 886 In 1992, Awadagin Pratt became the first African-American classical instrumentalist to win…
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) _ A team of Bethune-Cookman University students was one of only 10 presenters recently during President’s Obama’s “National Week of Making” event at…
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) _ Dickinson State University is publishing online a collection of images that includes letters from President Theodore Roosevelt to cartoonist John McCutcheon and…
Sunday’s 15th annual BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in downtown L.A. celebrated black — well, mostly black or “Black-ish” — stars from music, television, radio, film and…
Miami police will start enforcing a juvenile curfew Monday, making it illegal for minors to gather in public areas for several hours each night. The curfew…
They say if you want something done, get a (black) woman to do it. Just after dawn this morning, activist and North Carolina educator Bree Newsome climbed…
Ross was taken into custody Wednesday by a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force and sheriff’s deputies at the mansion in Fayette County, south of Atlanta.…
Bobbi Kristina Brown is being moved to hospice care after months in the hospital. In a statement, her aunt Pat Houston said Whitney Houston’s daughter’s “condition…
Police on Thursday nabbed the 21-year-old man suspected of gunning down nine people gathered for Bible study in a Charleston, S.C., church, nearly 14 hours later…
NAACP chapter president in Spokane, Rachel Dolezal, who has portrayed herself as black, comes under fire when it’s revealed that she’s white and now has resigned…