By Holly Yan, CNN Mon February 27, 2017 (CNN) Of all the memorable moments at the Oscars Sunday night, Mahershala Ali’s win for best supporting actor marked an especially poignant triumph. Ali is the first Muslim actor to take home the golden statue. And he comes from a sect of
Continue readingReporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Jill Serjeant and Sandra Maler Mahershala Ali won the best supporting actor Oscar on Sunday for his role as a drug-dealing mentor to an impoverished black boy in the intimate independent drama “Moonlight.” Ali, 43, plays Juan, a drug dealer who takes a young
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by Annika Harris on Aug 1, 2016 Famous ballerina Misty Copeland wed longtime beau Olu Evans on Sunday in Laguna Beach, Calif. The couple dated for 10 years before tying the knot at the Montage Hotel during an intimate ceremony overlooking the Pacific Ocean. According to E! news, Copeland wanted
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By Ed Adamczyk | June 15, 2016 at 8:16 AM The iconic African-American magazines were sold to a Black owned Texas private equity firm. CHICAGO, June 15 (UPI) — Johnson Publishing sold African-American lifestyle magazines Ebony and Jet to a Texas private equity firm. The family-owned company, which has published
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The Associated Press 6 hours ago LAS VEGAS (AP) — The newly crowned Miss USA is a 26-year-old Army officer from the District of Columbia who gave perhaps the strongest answer of the night when asked about women in combat. “As a woman in the United States Army, I think
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June 30, 2015 You might remember Misty Copeland from her Time Magazine cover. If not, perhaps you’ve seen her inspiring and intense I Will What I Want Under Armour ads and video. She also has half a million Instagram followers. And the public is about to see her a lot
Continue readingJan 8, 2015 By D.L. Chandler Darnell Martin is the first African-American woman to direct a film backed by a major studio. While Ms. Martin has downplayed the distinction in the past, she has gone on to an active career on the small screen while scoring some big screen projects
Continue readingFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Muriel Burrell Smith (February 23, 1923 – September 13, 1985) was an American singer. In the 1940s and 1950s, she was a star of musical theater and opera, and was also the off-film ghost singer in several hit movies. She is perhaps best known in
Continue readingPosted: 4:37 p.m. Monday, July 28, 2014 By Steve Visser The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The wrecking crew came again Monday to flatten another church to make way for a new Atlanta Falcons stadium with a retractable roof. Workmen began demolishing Friendship Baptist Church three months after they had torn down Mount
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