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GRAHAM LEE BREWER, Associated Press 4 days ago Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., wears a Laken Riley shirt as she arrives before President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Thursday March 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Marjorie Taylor Greene wore […]
Page 5, issue 40 of GCN magazine (May 1992) contained an article titled ‘Camp Pain’. It began: “Americans who thought Nancy Reagan went overboard on the designer frocks ain’t seen nothin’ yet! (The) Latest entry in the US presidential race is Chicago drag queen Joan Jett Blakk, official candidate of the newly-formed Queer Nation Party.” […]
‘American Queen’ author Vanessa Miller In the late 1800s, a group of formerly enslaved people embarked on a year-long journey from the Deep South to the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, where they built a community called the Kingdom of the Happy Land. The group was led by Reverend William Montgomery and his wife, Louella—the […]
Queen Njinga meeting with Portuguese Governor Joao Corria de Sousa, 1622 Public domain image Queen Nzinga (Nzinga Mbande), the monarch of the Mbundu people, was a resilient leader who fought against the Portuguese and their expanding slave trade in Central Africa. During the late 16th Century, the French and the English threatened the Portuguese near […]
CNN — A South Carolina teen has made history at her private high school after her classmates crowned her the school’s first Black homecoming queen. Amber Wilsondebriano, 17, is a senior at
Two black actors, one in drag, dance together on stage in 1903 James Gardiner via Welcome Collection Gallery Born into slavery, William Dorsey Swann went on to become known as the “Queen of Drag.” Swann hosted covert gatherings of drag performances, which became legendary among the Black working class community. Swann was subjected to countless […]
A South African choir sang for Queen Victoria. They had great highs … NPR Source link
The first two seasons of Shondaland’s sprawling period drama focused on the respective love lives of the oldest Bridgerton siblings Daphne (Phoebe Dyvenor) and Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) and the scandal that their relationships sparked in the ton. Between Daphne’s contract relationship with Simon Basset (Regé-Jean Page
King Charles III was anointed and crowned on Saturday. During the historic and solemn two-hour service, which dates back to the time of William the Conqueror in 1066, Charles’ second wife Camilla was also crowned queen. Gun salutes were fired at the Tower of London and across the capital, the nation, in Gibraltar, Bermuda and […]