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Black Girls Rock! Is Taking Its Celebration on an Arena Tour

For twenty years, BLACK GIRLS ROCK! has mostly lived on a stage for one televised night a year. On October 14, founder Beverly Bond announced that the brand is going on the road: a multi-year partnership with the Black Promoters Collective will

October 22, 2026

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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'

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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

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From the NFL’s C-Suite to Hollywood’s Power Center: Dasha Smith Is CAA’s New COO

Hollywood’s most powerful talent agency just recruited from professional football’s front office. Creative Artists Agency has named Dasha Smith its chief operating officer, the agency announced October 5, adding one of the most accomplished Black executives in American business to the senior

October 13, 2026

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Black Girls Rock! Is Taking Its Celebration on an Arena Tour

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

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

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

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

From the NFL’s C-Suite to Hollywood’s Power Center: Dasha Smith Is CAA’s New COO

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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

From the NFL’s C-Suite to Hollywood’s Power Center: Dasha Smith Is CAA’s New COO

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