Focusing on the extraordinary women behind the two men who would change history, " Betty & Coretta " tells the similar true stories of Coretta Scott King (Angela Bassett), wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Malik Yoba), and Dr. Betty Shabazz (Mary J. Blige), wife of Malcolm X (Lindsay Owen Pi... Read more...
The grandson of late civil rights leader Malcolm X was arrested by the FBI on Monday on his way to Iran to attend a Hollywoodism conference. The Hollywoodism conference occurs annually and brings together filmmakers, directors, actors, and movie critics as well as politicians and economists who ... Read more...
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. penned these words in Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, the last book he published before his assassination in 1968. More than forty years after Dr... Read more...
...like Trayvon Martin America loves Black men like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and even Trayvon Martin - after they are dead... TRAYVON MARTIN is more valuable to America as a dead young black man then he ever was alive! As a dead symbol, the president can claim him as a son ... Read more...
Annie Spencer Annie Bethel Spencer was a poet and active participant in the New Negro Movement and Harlem Renaissance period. Anne was the first Virginian and first African-American to have her poetry included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry. Also an activist ... Read more...