Lifetime will celebrate Black History Month with an impressive trio of world premiere movies featuring major award-winning casts, including Betty & Coretta, starring Golden Globe® Award-winner and Academy Award®-nominee Angela Bassett (What’s Love Got to Do with It?) and starring and executive produced by nine-time Grammy®-winning recording artist Mary J. Blige; Twist of Faith, with [...]

By Farrah Turenne The Chicago Park District board of commissioners recently named two parks after African Americans, bringing the total to 43 parks named after Black folks who have played instrumental roles in shaping the city’s legacy. The park at 10609-15 South Western was named King-Lockhart Park in honor of firefighters Patrick King and Anthony [...]

He was known as ‘One Shot Harris’. Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris earned the nickname because he often captured his most moving images in his first take. The late photographer’s archive of nearly 80,000 is said to be the most expansive record of African American urban culture known today. Now, fourteen years after his death, Mr Harris’ [...]

If you only watched the evening news or depended on pop culture to paint a picture of young blacks, you would probably think that the majority of black youngsters were only ambitious about sports and music, or caught up in crime and debauchery. However, the face of black success isn’t limited to the fields that [...]