https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waHohT5LPoo This young writer, Morgan Parker is the winner of a Pushcart Prize; which honors the best “poetry, short fiction,…

Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr.; September 13, 1969) is an American actor, playwright, filmmaker, and comedian. In 2011, Forbes…

Robert Townsend (born February 6, 1957) is an American actor, comedian, film director, and writer. Townsend is best known for…

Mario Van Peebles (born January 15, 1957) is an American film director and actor best known for directing New Jack…

A character guide to one of our featured Black History Month heroes, Andrew Gillum.

  In 1931, Theodore Frye and Thomas A. Dorsey, also known as the Father of Gospel Music created the first…

The MacArthur Genius and two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward was born, April 1, 1977 in DeLisle, Mississippi She isn’t…

Lyft is offering free rides to Black-owned businesses, Black museums and other cultural institutions for Black History Month.

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For Black History Month, the National Trust for Historic Preservation launched a powerful campaign with the help of actors to…

We know her as Toni Morrison. She was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. Toni…

 Gloria Mayfield Banks a Detroit , Michigan native. She was born September 8, 1956. Banks openly shares that she grew up dyslexic. Through that…