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Country music icon Toby Keith has died, his official website and social media accounts said early Tuesday, 18 months after he revealed
Arianna Kamal’s classmates and teachers remember her as a brilliant student New Delhi: Teachers and classmates of an 18-year-old Indian-origin teen who was found dead along with her parents in Massachusetts remember her as a brilliant student and an amazing singer. The teen Arianna Kamal, and her parents Rakesh Kamal and Teena Kamal were found […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How a single incident can change a life. J’Nai Bridges looked set to become a professional basketball player when a relatively minor falling-out with her coach led her to change course completely and pursue her […]
Jane Singer (ABJ ‘76) will visit Grady College as a scholar-in-residence for a lunch & learn on Oct. 11 at 12:30 p.m. in Studio 100. Singer is an alumna of The Red & Black and received the Grady College Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award in 2017. She was also involved with honor societies including Phi Beta […]
CNN — A fortnight ago, Motswedi Modiba was a South African singer showing signs of a promising career in her home country. Now she’s a breakout hit on one of China’s largest reality TV shows after wowing millions with her performance in Mandarin. Modiba, reported to be the first Black . . .
NEW YORK (AP) — Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany’s Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top stages, has died. She was 86. Bumbry died Sunday at Evangelisches Krankenhaus, a hospital in Vienna, according to her publicist, David Lee […]
NEW YORK — Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany’s Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top stages, has died. She was 86. Bumbry died Sunday at Evangelisches Krankenhaus, a hospital in Vienna, according to her publicist, David Lee Brewer. […]
Prompted by the Getty Museum Challenge—which involved using household items to restage famous paintings on social media during Covid-19 lockdowns—the renowned UK opera singer Peter Brathwaite began researching more than 100 works of art featuring Black sitters. The works, presented in Rediscovering Black Portraiture where they are re-created by Brathwaite, span antiquity to the present, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Throughout February, as part of Black History Month, the Manistee News Advocate and Manistee Area Racial Justice & Diversity Initiative will share some information about the lives of some of the African-American people and groups who have made an impact in American history and in our local community. Mary Violet Leontyne (Le’-on-teen) Price, […]
One of Dal’s leading scholars of Black Canadian history will unveil a new short film about Nova Scotia-born singing sensation and Dal alum Portia White at a panel event this week. Dr. Afua Cooper has invited a group of celebrated Canadian literary and cultural stalwarts to join her at this Thursday’s screening of her video […]