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Viola Davis Wins First Oscar, Black Hollywood Dominates The Academy

Viola Davis Wins First Oscar, Black Hollywood Dominates The Academy

Take your mind back to last February. Entering Oscars season, a fierce protest of the nominee list that featured no actors or writers of color blindsided the media sphere. Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith boldly proclaimed that they would be protesting the Oscars,...

Rachel Dolezal on Welfare and on the Brink Homelessness

Rachel Dolezal on Welfare and on the Brink Homelessness

Rachael Dolezal is back in the news with a new story. Rachel became famous or rather infamous when the world found out she was pretending to be black and further used her blackness to rise through the ranks. The cultural fraud caused uproar among both the white and...

Families in America: Meet The Brown’s

Families in America: Meet The Brown’s

Lula M. Brown says an Aunt taught her, at a very young age, the importance of family values that involve family members staying as close and cohesive as humanly possible at all times. Schedules, distance, and even qualms and quarrels aside... to the Browns, family is...

Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali Is The First Muslim Actor To Win An Oscar!

Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali Is The First Muslim Actor To Win An Oscar!

“I want to thank my teachers, my professors,” “One thing they consistently told me … was that it wasn’t about you. It’s not about you, it’s about these characters, you are a servant. You’re in service to these stories and these characters.” These were words from...

“Moonlight” Acceptance Speech, A Beautiful Call for Inclusion

“Moonlight” Acceptance Speech, A Beautiful Call for Inclusion

For their work on the moonlight script, Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar on Sunday Their speech was every bit as inspirational as the more publicised speech by Viola Davis (which was also amazing and can be seen here). It...

WOAH: Watch These African Sabar Dancers And Their BOUNDLESS ENERGY!

WOAH: Watch These African Sabar Dancers And Their BOUNDLESS ENERGY!

This Sabar dance is something else! Expressive, improvised, extremely athletic and strong! It's an absolute joy and mesmerizing experience to watch! I seriously wish I had this kind of energy! Enjoy the video below and learn more and see more of this Sabar dance on...