Oscar Micheaux: Author, Filmmaker, Entrepreneur
Writer and director Oscar Micheaux was a creative entrepreneur and one of the most important figures in African American cinema during the early twentieth century.
Writer and director Oscar Micheaux was a creative entrepreneur and one of the most important figures in African American cinema during the early twentieth century.
The success of the integrated production of the 1959 musical King Kong had been highly unlikely, and it symbolized a fleeting burst of hope for a multiracial society in Apartheid South Africa.
Toni Morrison’s Beloved
receives acclaim and suppression in equal measure, proving that unapologetically centering Blackness in literature is still controversial in the United States.
The Legend of Jimi Hendrix was born on June 18th 1967 at the Monterey International Pop Festival.
Before beginning his Hall of Fame baseball career, Jackie Robinson served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army, enduring a court martial in pursuit of equal rights for Black soldiers.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s most popular New Deal programs, provided work, education, and recreation opportunities for hundreds of thousands of young African American men.
In one of the most iconic and celebrated heavyweight fights, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman clashed in Zaire in 1974.
The everyday lives and struggles of Black women in Atlanta reveal the roots of their activism.
A photograph of Mahalia Jackson in 1964 offers a window on the role of music in the civil rights movement.
The famed choreographer used his art to emphasize the universal resonance of African American stories.
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