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Catholic mental health ministers from all over the world gathered in the Dicastery for Communication for the first-ever Vatican workshop dedicated to mental health and pastoral care. ...
Posted Monday, February 5th 2024 at 12:22PM
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM DR. OKEYO JUMAL!
A moment in Black History: ASALH holding their 93rd Annual Convention in the historic city of Birmingham, Alabama.
Enjoy watching the video with Nina Simone as we walk from Birmingham to Obama.
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Posted Sunday, February 4th 2024 at 7:31PM
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For Immediate Release From Queen Latifah!
WHAT: Jazz Festival Heritage Festival
WHEN: Saturday, May 4, 2024
WHERE: Fair Grounds Race Course
1751 Gentilly Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70119
TIME: ...
Posted Saturday, February 3rd 2024 at 7:28PM
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GERALDINE MCCULLOUGH
Renowned sculptor and painter Geraldine McCollough was born Geraldine Hamilton on December 1, 1917 in Kingston, Arkansas, and raised in Chicago from the time she was three years old. McCullough attended the Art Institute of Ch ...
Posted Saturday, February 3rd 2024 at 6:11PM
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On February 3, 1948, Rosa Lee Ingram, a Black woman, and two of her children, Wallace, 17, and Sammie Lee, 14, were convicted by an all-white jury in a one-day trial in Ellaville, Georgia. The three family members were sentenced to death by electric ...
Posted Saturday, February 3rd 2024 at 1:29PM
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For Immediate Release From Bobby Brown!
WHAT: DJ CASSIDY'S PASS-THE-MIC!
WHEN: Saturday, May 11, 2024
TIME: 8:00 P.M., EST
WHERE: Prudential Center, in Newark New Jersey
HOW: Purchase ...
Posted Saturday, February 3rd 2024 at 10:11AM
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William Ellisworth Artis (February 2, 1914 – April 3, 1977) was an African-American sculptor, whose favorite medium was clay. The freedom of modeling gave him a broad range of expression. During the latter part of his life, he began to focus on pot ...
Posted Friday, February 2nd 2024 at 2:45PM
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Anne Raven Wilkinson (February 2, 1935 – December 17, 2018) was an American dancer who is credited with having been the first African-American woman to dance for a major classical ballet company. Wilkinson broke the color barrier in 1955 when she s ...
Posted Friday, February 2nd 2024 at 1:08PM
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On February 2, 1955, New York Representative Adam Clayton Powell, then one of only three African Americans in the U.S. Congress, rose to argue that his colleagues should support two pending civil rights bills then before the House of Representative ...
Posted Friday, February 2nd 2024 at 11:54AM
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Rustin is a 2023 American biographical drama film directed by George C. Wolfe, from a screenplay by Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black, and a story by Breece about the life of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. Produced by Barack and Michelle ...
Posted Thursday, February 1st 2024 at 4:56PM
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Abbott Elementary is an American mockumentary sitcom television series created by Quinta Brunson for ABC. It stars Brunson as Janine Teagues, a perpetually optimistic second-grade teacher at the underfunded Abbott Elementary, a fictional predominan ...
Posted Thursday, February 1st 2024 at 4:37PM
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The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson in his feature writing debut. Set in 1970-1971, it stars Paul Giamatti as a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding schoo ...
Posted Thursday, February 1st 2024 at 4:24PM
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