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Photo: Mary J. Blige and Angela Bassett as Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz

by Jorge Rivas on January 11 2013, 12:56PM

Yesterday Lifetime released an image of Angela Bassett and Mary J. Blige in the upcoming “Betty & Coretta”.

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DC Mayor Says Redskins Football Team Must Consider a Name Change to Return to Town

by Jorge Rivas on January 11 2013, 12:34PM

The Redkins played in D.C. from 1937 to ‘97 when they moved to Landover, Md.

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Series of Brooklyn Billboards Put Racial Inequity on Display

by Jamilah King on January 11 2013, 9:24AM

A series of anonymous billboards have popped up on bus shelters in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. They’re not selling anything but a delcaration: that racism still exists.

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Seven (Yes, 7!) Slave-Themed Films Coming in 2013

by Jorge Rivas on January 10 2013, 3:54PM

2013 is going to be the year of the slave-theme movies.

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Oscar Disaster: ‘Django’ Costume Designer Revealed in Glitch Didn’t Get a Nomination

by Jorge Rivas on January 10 2013, 11:01AM

It’s an Oscar disaster and a heartbreaking story.

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Denzel and Quvenzhané Are The Only Actors of Color Nominated for Oscars

by Jorge Rivas on January 10 2013, 9:40AM

Only two actors of color made the cut for Oscar nominations.

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Quvenzhané Wallis Is Youngest to Get Oscar Nod for ‘Best Actress’

by Jorge Rivas on January 10 2013, 9:12AM

Wallis is the youngest best actress nominee in the history of the Academy Awards.

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Megdar Evers’ Widow to Deliver Convocation at Inauguration

by Jorge Rivas on January 9 2013, 3:01PM

Myrlie Evers-Williams will become the first woman, and someone other than clergy, to say the prayer that precedes the ceremonial oath of office.

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‘Cotton Club Parade’ Moves to Broadway

by Jorge Rivas on January 9 2013, 1:55PM

Cotton Club Parade is a celebration of Duke Ellington’s years at the famed Harlem nightclub in the 1920s.

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Tyler Perry Tops Razzie Nominations For Worst Achievement in Film

by Jorge Rivas on January 9 2013, 12:33PM

The Razzies committee announced this years nominations for worst achievements in film for the past year.

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Huell Howser Redefined Who Could Become a Californian

by Jorge Rivas on January 9 2013, 11:45AM

Howser took his camera where no other broadcast television show dared to go and allowed many Californians to see fair representations of themselves on television for the first time.

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Hollywood’s Slavery Films Tell Us More About the Present Than the Past

by Dexter Gabriel on January 9 2013, 9:37AM

“Django Unchained” and “Lincoln” share a long history of Hollywood epics that feed our modern myths and expectations back to us, rather than genuinely explore our history.

Topics: 'Django', Arts & Culture, History

Gay Cuban-American Poet Richard Blanco to Read at Obama’s Inauguration

by Jorge Rivas on January 9 2013, 8:10AM

Blanco will become the fifth poet in history to read an official inauguration poem and the first Latino and openly-gay poet to have the honor.

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Oscar Website Glitch Reveals Nominee Page One Week Early

by Jorge Rivas on January 8 2013, 10:44AM

A test page at Oscars.com revealed that ‘Django Unchained’ costume designer Sharen Davis seems to have gotten a nomination for an Academy Award.

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Bill Cosby and ‘Cosby Show’ Daughter Tempestt Bledsoe Reunite After 20 Years

by Jorge Rivas on January 7 2013, 5:23PM

Jimmy Fallon orchestrated a mini “Cosby Show” reunion on Friday’s episode of ” Late Show with Jimmy Fallon.”

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‘Girls’ Spoiler: Donald Glover is Lena Dunham’s Republican Boyfriend

by Jorge Rivas on January 7 2013, 2:04PM

Early reviews of the second season describe Glover’s role as a big unexplained jump.

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Django Unchained Action Figures Causing Even More Controversy

by Jorge Rivas on January 7 2013, 11:11AM

The film’s release came with a lot of criticism and new actions figures released alongside the movie are causing even more controversy.

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Frank Ocean, Pot Possession, Black Men and the War on Drugs

by Jorge Rivas on January 4 2013, 4:39PM

R&B star Frank Ocean was stopped by California Highway Patrol on New Year’s Eve after officers observed his black BMW speeding on U.S. Highway 395.

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Philadelphia New Year’s Parade Mocks Indians, Native Americans, Blackface

by Jorge Rivas on January 3 2013, 6:20PM

New Year’s cheer for Philadelphia’s annual Mummers parade included a whole bunch of racial mockery.

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Junot Díaz: ‘You Need to Cultivate the Martí Mind’ [Video]

by Jorge Rivas on January 3 2013, 5:16PM

Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Junot Díaz was Bill Moyer’s last guest of 2012 and sat down for an hour-long conversation to discuss the current state of affairs in the U.S.

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