Oprah Winfrey and entertainment legend Harry Belafonte, among others honored at Harvard University for their contributions to African American culture. Oprah also accepted a posthumous award for her good friend poet Maya Angelou who you may recall died earlier this year. As posted by, Blackamericaweb.com Click for more:http://blackamericaweb.com/2014/10/01/harvard-honors-oprah-and-harry-belafonte-with-du-bois-medal
Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o stop by Sesame Street with a very important message, she join Elmo to discuss the importance and beauty of skin. The message from Sesame Street: “Elmo’s skin just happens to be very ticklish. Lupita’s skin happens to be a beautiful brown color. Skin can come in all different shades and […]
’12 Years A Slave’ in my opinion one of the most moving, powerful, gut wrenching, movies to hit the big screen in a long time. Steve McQueen’s slavery film, based on Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir, has been hailed as a landmark corrective to the movie industry’s long omission of slavery stories and years of whiter […]
What a wonderful nigbt, ’12 Years A Slave,” won the top prize at the 71st Annual Golden Globes, Best Motion Picture- Drama. Steve McQueen’s film. based on the 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup, a free man who was kidnapped into slavery. By, Marco Spoon
The new film “12 Years A Slave,” has a little-known connection to a slave site that still stands near the nation’s capital. The heartfelt story of a free black man lured from his home in New York in 1841 to be sold into slavery. As posted by, BlackAmericaweb.com Read more:http://blackamericaweb.com/181055/film-12-years-a-slave-has-ties-to-dc-area-site/
