Month: February 2017

Articles, News

‘Sesame Street’ Shares Vintage Clips To Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth

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LINK: Grover and Stevie Wonder, 1973 is just one classic

News

#Oscars: State Dept tweets/deletes congrats to Iran’s Asghar Farhadi

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LINK: Director Skipped Ceremony To Protest 45’s Muslim Travel Ban

Articles

5-Year-Old Dresses Up as Iconic Black Women for Each Day of Black History Month

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Check it out at The Grapevine.

Cristi Smith-Jones's daughter Lola as Josephine Baker.

Cristi Smith-Jones’s daughter Lola as Josephine Baker.

Articles

Oscars Tweets: Asian Twitter Dropped Some Serious Truth

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LINK: Asians were definitely not well-represented at the Oscars

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Articles, News

#BlackHistoryMonth: The Story of NASA’s Real “Hidden Figures”

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LINK: African-American women were vital to the Space Race

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Articles

Blind Filipino Man Creates Software to Help Others See

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Read all about it at BBC.com.

Marx Melencio (left) was blinded as result of a random street shooting.

Marx Melencio (left) was blinded as result of a random street shooting.

News

‘Get Out’s’ Daniel Kaluuya Joins Steve McQueen’s ‘Widows’

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Read all about it at Comingsoon.net.

Viola Davis and Michelle Rodriguez are also slated for Widows.

Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out (2017)

Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out (2017)

Articles

Explore African-American Women’s Lives Via the Nat’l Women’s History Museum #BlackHistoryMonth

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Read at NWHM.org.

Photo of an unknown sharecropper. Library of Congress, LC-USF34-017112-C.

Photo of an unknown sharecropper. Library of
Congress, LC-USF34-017112-C.