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Andra Day tearfully accepts Golden Globe as first Black Best Actress winner in 35 years © NBC Andra Day pulled off a stunning upset for Best Actress at the Golden Globes. Andra Day has broken a 35-year dry spell for Black women at the Golden Globes. At Sunday nights ceremony, the United States vs. Billie Holiday star became only the second Black woman in history to win the Golden Globe for Best Actress — Drama, the first to do so since Whoopi Goldberg claimed the prize in 1986 for her work...

Andra Day won the 2021 Golden Globe best actress in a drama trophy for 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday,' becoming the second Black actress to win and the first to do so in 35 years.

The singer, who attended San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, wins in a category that included Viola Davis, Vanessa Kirby, Frances McDormand and Carey Mulligan

Watch DAngelo Duet With H.E.R., Method Man, Redman and Himself in Unconventional Verzuz Team-Up A.D. Amorosi, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail When Verzuz announced on Valentine’s Day that the reclusive R&B superstar D’Angelo, who has been under the radar since his brief tour in support of 2014’s “Black Messiah” album, would come out of his lair to perform with unnamed “Friends” at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater on February 27, the Internet immediately lit up with speculation...

A Georgia high school teacher, Susan McCoy, told her students Breonna Taylor caused her own death by hanging out with bad people.

Mark Metcalfe/Getty ImagesD'Angelo is set to take the stage this weekend for another legendary Verzuz battle to close out Black History Month. The soul singer will be coming to fans live from the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, where in 1995, he performed his classic "Brown Sugar," supported by a live band. Swizz Beatz and Timbaland shared the exciting news from the @Verzuztv Instagram account, along with old footage from D'Angelo's performance, where he wa...

Skip to main content Currently Reading With Music From Black Films Dominating the Awards Race, H.E.R., Janelle Monae, Leslie Odom Jr. and Others Discuss Why the Change Has Come With Music From Black Films Dominating the Awards Race, H.E.R., Janelle Monae, Leslie Odom Jr. and Others Discuss Why the Change Has Come The best original song race at the Oscars and Globes has seen songs from "Judas and the Black Messiah," "One Night in Miami," "All In" and other films with racial justice themes domina...

‘The United States vs Billie Holiday: Five Facts About Lead Actress Andra Day Day says she was inspired to become an R&B musician because of singers like Holiday and Ella FitzgeraldSamson Amore | February 25, 2021 @ 4:53 PM Last Updated: February 25, 2021 @ 5:00 PM Andra Day in "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" (Photo Credit: Hulu/Takashi Seida) Hulu’s anticipated biopic of one of Jazz music’s most iconic voices, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” premieres this...

What black artists/musicians influenced your own developmental interest in music? My top influences on the music I create are Archie Shepp, Sonder, Stevie Wonder, Andre3000, Isaac Hayes, and Raphael Saadiq. What current black musicians/artists are inspiring you? Smino, Michael Kiwanuka  Recording new music (and drinking). ---------------- What black artists/musicians influenced your own developmental interest in music? Questlove and The Roots. As a drummer growing up, Questlove was one of my f...

By: Pollstar Staff In honor of Black History Month, Pollstar is spotlighting seminal live performances by Black artists every weekday throughout February. With a deep, rich tradition of transcendent and powerful performers across genres and the ages, we are well aware we can only scratch the surface of so many thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of brilliant Black performance. In fact, any one genre by itself, be it jazz, soul, R&B, hip-hop, blu...