Atlantic City Focus Salutes Robert Townsend, Lorenz Tate and Ben Vereen
Robert Townsend, Lorenz Tate and Ben Vereen appeared together at the Wilmington Public Library.
Black History & Culture
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Dreary Weather Doesn't Deter Excitement of HBCU Week and Battle of the Bands
The event, which kicked off at 12:30 p.m., lasted until late afternoon, drawing a large, enthusiastic crowd of students, alumni, and HBCU supporters from across the region.
African American Museum Of Philadelphia (AAMP) presents “SharedVision: Portraits from the CCH Pounder-Koné Collection”
“Shared Vision” is composed of 40 works in a wide range of media by world-renowned artists, including Bisa Butler, Elizabeth Colomba, Samella Lewis, and Lezley Saar, and emerging art stars such as Luke Agada and Alex Peter Idoko.
BlerDcon Celebrates Black Nerd Culture
BlerDcon attracts Black people who immerse themselves in everything from manga and animé to Star Trek and Star Wars and every iteration of science fiction culture in between. In fact, BlerDcon centers Blackness and People of Color in Sci-Fi, anime, fantasy and horror entertainment.
A Blerd Con Thing
BlerDCon (Black Nerd Convention) is a convention that celebrates black nerd culture while also being inclusive of all backgrounds.
Postcard from the East Coast Black Age of Comics
The ECBACC is the first bona fide “Black Comic Book Convention” in Philadelphia, PA, and serves as a replicable model for community-based comic book conventions.
Reconsidering Douglass's 1852 4th of July Speech
The evil that men do, lives after them, The good is oft’ interred with their bones. - Frederick Douglass
What Is Juneteenth?
On June 19, 1865, freedom reached the westernmost Confederate state of Texas. On this day, some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay and announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved African Americans in Texas were free.
Juneteenth and the Problem with American History
The history of slavery, when it literally ended can be convoluted, like the history of the Civil War.