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André De Shields Led the Honorees at AAFCA’s Broadway Luncheon

Four crystal awards, four very different careers, one long lunch in the Theater District. On Monday, October 12, the African American Film Critics Association held its fifth AAFCA Goes to Broadway Luncheon at Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse in New York, and

October 22, 2026

Culture

Cornel West Will Keynote the Black Men’s Legacy Summit in Minneapolis

On Saturday, October 31, the main hall at 1256 Penn Avenue North in Minneapolis will fill on a first come, first served basis, and the man at the front of it will be Dr. Cornel West. The fifth Black Men’s Legacy Summit

October 22, 2026

Philanthropy

Fatima Goss Graves Joins the Ford Foundation Board

Board seats at the Ford Foundation are where grantmaking policy gets set, and one of them now belongs to a lawyer who has spent her career on pay, workplace justice and the safety of women and girls. The foundation announced on October

October 22, 2026

Philanthropy

Elizabeth City State Will Build an Outdoor Wellness Park With a $200,000 Home Depot Grant

The grant is $200,000, and Elizabeth City State University already knows where it goes: outside. The university in Elizabeth City, North Carolina is one of 10 colleges and universities nationwide selected for a 2026 Retool Your School Campus Improvement Grant from The

October 22, 2026

Billye Aaron in yellow holding the Phoenix Award, flanked by Mayor Andre Dickens and Ambassador Andrew Young at her 90th birthday celebration at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. Photo: City of Atlanta.

Philanthropy

Atlanta Gives Billye Aaron Its Highest Honor on Her 90th Birthday

The award is glass, shaped like a flame, and the city does not give it often. The Phoenix Award is Atlanta’s highest honor, and this week it went to Billye Suber Aaron, at a celebration at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta for her

October 19, 2026

C.Z. Guest poolside with her poodle in 1962, in the white lace jacket and shorts that became her signature. Courtesy SCAD FASH.

Culture

C.Z. Guest’s Own Wardrobe Goes on View in Atlanta

She kept everything. Gowns and bathrobes, riding boots and penny loafers, cashmere twinsets bought in multiples of ten because when C.Z. Guest liked something she had it made in every color. That wardrobe, preserved nearly whole across a long life at the

October 19, 2026

Members of Howard University's Class of 2006 holding their 20th reunion class gift check for $696,078.51

Philanthropy

Four Howard Reunion Classes Presented $1.61 Million at Homecoming

The checks came out on Friday, in the middle of homecoming, and the arithmetic tells the story of what a Howard class can do when it organizes. Four reunion classes presented their class gifts during Homecoming 2026, whose theme was “Wildest Dreams,”

October 19, 2026

Vintage typewriter used by W.E.B. Du Bois at Atlanta University

Culture

At the Vanguard Brings Five HBCU Archives Together at Clark Atlanta University

The typewriter stayed home. Everything else about this exhibition is a tour. At the Vanguard: Making and Saving History at HBCUs opened September 17 at the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, the first stop on a nine-city national tour organized by the

October 19, 2026

Hand-colored tintype portrait from about 1860 of a young Black woman in lace gloves, inscribed 'Remember Me, Annie'

Culture

Remember Me Brings 70 Early Portraits of Black Americans to the National Gallery, Many Shown for the First Time

She measures two and a half inches, and she is looking straight at you. The portrait is a tintype from about 1860, hand-colored, small enough to close inside a locket case. A young Black woman sits in lace gloves and a good

October 19, 2026

Philanthropy

QTS Data Center Deal Brings $28.75M Commitment to Blakely

The first check arrives in December, and nothing has been built yet. Under a community investment agreement announced on August 13, QTS Data Centers will pay the City of Blakely and Early County $7.5 million a year for three years, beginning this

October 19, 2026

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André De Shields Led the Honorees at AAFCA’s Broadway Luncheon

Cornel West Will Keynote the Black Men’s Legacy Summit in Minneapolis

Fatima Goss Graves Joins the Ford Foundation Board

Elizabeth City State Will Build an Outdoor Wellness Park With a $200,000 Home Depot Grant

Atlanta Gives Billye Aaron Its Highest Honor on Her 90th Birthday

C.Z. Guest’s Own Wardrobe Goes on View in Atlanta

Four Howard Reunion Classes Presented $1.61 Million at Homecoming

At the Vanguard Brings Five HBCU Archives Together at Clark Atlanta University

Remember Me Brings 70 Early Portraits of Black Americans to the National Gallery, Many Shown for the First Time

QTS Data Center Deal Brings $28.75M Commitment to Blakely

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