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Home Alone, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Apollo 13 and Fame are among the movies inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. 

How a community—and a legacy—of Black playwrights, performers, choreographers, and producers has transformed what we get to see on stage.

Ellen Holly, whose turn as Carla on One Life to Live made her the first Black actress to gain stardom on a daytime soap opera, has died. She was 92.

Six decades after it premiered, "Purlie Victorious" is back on Broadway for a second “non-Confederate romp through the cotton patch,” as the show’s subtitle calls it.

Despite reactions and criticisms of Wonder’s relevance to Biden’s work on the Black agenda, celebrities have long engaged with presidents […] The post Stevie Wonder’s request to meet with Biden is no laughing matter appeared first on TheGrio.

Despite reactions and criticisms of Wonder’s relevance to Biden’s work on the Black agenda, celebrities have long engaged with presidents […] The post Stevie Wonder’s request to meet with Biden is no laughing matter appeared first on TheGrio.

At the Wednesday evening performance of PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch, the cast, led by Leslie Odom, Jr. and Kara Young, was treated to a special visit from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton backstage at the Music Box Theatre. See photos here!

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Read CNN’s Fast Facts on Jimmy Carter and learn more information about the 39th President of the United States.

I n her 1987 Black-independent-film manifesto “Why Black Cinema?,” Toni Cade Bambara …