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Sterling K. Brown, left, Ryan Michelle Bathe and Gil Robertson attend the 15th Annual AAFCA Awards on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Filmmaker Ava DuVernay remembered working as a publicist years ago, struggling to draw major traffic to star-studded events for the African American Film Critics Association. No matter which renowned […]
In the following article novelist and independent historian Amy Sommers briefly outlines the experience of African Americans in Asia between World Wars I and II. She argues that African American influence in Asia was situated in four broad categories: the performing arts, international relations, faith, and intellectual exchange. Black Americans venturing overseas during the interwar […]
“It was an idea. It was a dream. It was this little dinky thing, but it was always beautiful,” said DuVernay, whose public relations company represented AAFCA the first few years before she became a filmmaker. “It was rough around the edges. It was respect. The community came, the press wouldn’t cover it. Actors, creatives, […]
LOS ANGELES — Filmmaker Ava DuVernay remembered working as a publicist years ago, struggling to draw major traffic to star-studded events for the African American Film Critics Association. No matter which renowned Black actor showed up — from Viola Davis to Forest Whitaker — the organization known as AAFCA still had a hard time garnering […]
FILE – Sterling K. Brown, from left, Ryan Michelle Bathe and Gil Robertson attend the 15th Annual AAFCA Awards on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Filmmaker Ava DuVernay remembered working as a publicist years ago, struggling to draw major traffic to star-studded events […]
Eliminating disparities and promoting health equity is central to increasing access to care for all. To help achieve this, we partnered with Morehouse School of Medicine’s African American Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (AABH-CoE), an initiative funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that’s helping the field transform behavioral health services […]
As record numbers of people cross into the United States, the southern border is not the only place where the migration crisis is playing out. Nearly three thousand miles to the south, inside Colombia’s main international airport, hundreds of African migrants have been pouring in every day, paying traffickers roughly $10,000 for flight packages they […]
People might not know that Phillis Wheatley was the first African American author of a published book of poetry in 1773. Or that Mary Fields was the first African American female mail carrier in 1895. Retired Penn State professor Anthony Mitchell highlighted the work of these women and other African American pioneers during his presentation […]
Mayor Deegan announces African American Advisory Board at BHM event with 904WARD. (photo courtesy of Mayor Deegan X account) (Mayor Deegan X account, Copyright 2024 by WJXT News4JAX – All rights reserved.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mayor Deegan announced the creation of the African American Advisory Board at an event with Jacksonville nonprofit 904WARD on Tuesday […]
January 10, 2013 by 826chi in Beyond the Films In Soul Food Junkies, filmmaker Byron Hurt briefly describes what it used to be like for African Americans to travel in the United States. He talks about how blacks would take along boxed lunches in order to avoid being turned away from restaurants or dining cars. And […]