Hollywood has long held a love-hate relationship with the spectacle, pageantry, and potential boondoggle represented by ...

With Canal+ announcing plans to shutter African streamer Showmax, local filmmakers are showing their resilience as they adapt ...

The civil rights organizer helped lead the student sit-ins that desegregated Nashville’s lunch counters and later became a strategist in the Southern voting rights movement.

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The elevated horror-western "The Trek," set in Africa's barren Kalahari desert, isn't an easy watch. But it is a beautiful ...

Bernard LaFayette Jr., who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in ...

The 1933 film made its television debut in 1956, expanding its pop culture legacy after groundbreaking box office success and ...

Linda Barnes offers the the history that led her to being the first Black woman elected to the Rock Island City Council.

On October 8th, 1941, Jesse Jackson was born into a world where he could not walk into the same buildings as his white neighbors or check out a book at the local library. He could not go to school ...

A nationally-known scholar Floyd Hayes III to present “Racism, Resistance, and Reality: Black America in the age of Trump” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Burgess-Osborne Auditorium.

A recent brief survey of young people (under the age of 40) revealed they had no knowledge of the true pioneers of mas. To most, it started with Harts (not ...

Young people who watched his historic campaigns or learned about his career became activists, clergy members, civic leaders and lawmakers.