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Building on the long legacy of activist entertainers, here are five ways movements for justice and famous supporters can partner to promote change. By

Valentine’s Day offers an opportunity to remember some of the inspiring couples who have shaped Black and American history.

Ossie Davis had a highly diverse career. Here is a celebration of his amazing work.

In her early 20s she co-founded the groundbreaking spoken-word record label Caedmon, which had a hit with Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.”

The singer was intimately familiar with how punishing the spotlight could be. Instead of only guiding others toward greater visibility, she worked to ensure they would survive it.

South Carolina ETV has always been known to support the arts.  Hosted by Beryl Dakers, Art's The Thing! was a weekly magazine program featuring segments about the local South Carolina arts scene. In this special Black History Month episode, the focus is on Oral Traditions. Much of what I am aware of when I speak of me as a person, as a human being, as I think back was fed to me in the form of those stories. - Ossie Davis

Barbara Brandon-Croft’s series “Where I’m Coming From” was the first by a Black female cartoonist to be picked up by a major national syndicate. Her strips, now collected in a book, got plenty right about how we still live today.

Reacquaint yourself with some of these treasures of Black cinema or discover them for the first time.

Kenny Leon will direct the revival of Ossie Davis’s 1961 play, which is expected to run this summer at an unspecified Broadway theater.

Kenny Leon will direct the Ossie Davis play, which hasn't been seen on Broadway since its original production in 1962.