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Huey P. Newton Died Today... Watch Roger Guenveur Smith Embody Him On Film

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • August 22, 2011 3:48 AM
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Today in history... August 22nd, 1989... Black Panthers' co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, CA. He was just 47 years old.
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Happy Birthday Marcus Garvey! To Celebrate, Watch Doc Biopic "Look For Me In The Whirlwind..."

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • August 18, 2011 3:39 AM
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Today in history... Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. was born today, August 17th, 1887, in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica.
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Let Us Remember A Legend of Music and Film . . . Abbey Lincoln (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010)

  • By Emmanuel Akitobi
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  • August 14, 2011 1:15 AM
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I told myself that I wouldn't let the 1-year anniversary of Abbey Lincoln's death pass without me saying a few words about it. So when I fell ill this past Friday morning and ended up in the ICU of D.C.'s Sibley Memorial Hospital, I was understandably miffed. Well, thank goodness for laptops and free hospital Wi-Fi.
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"She's Gotta Have It" Was Released Today... About That X-Rating And Black Sexuality On Screen...

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • August 8, 2011 9:42 AM
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Today in history... August 8th, 1986, Spike Lee's feature film debut, She's Gotta Have It, was released theatrically, and is, by the way, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year!
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Louis Armstrong Was Born Today... What's Going On With Forest Whitaker's Biopic? Charles Dutton's?

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • August 4, 2011 2:44 AM
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Today in history... August 4th 1901, jazzman Louis Armstrong (aka Satchmo), one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, was born in New Orleans, LA, the grandson of slaves.
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MTV Launched Today (Watch The First Broadcast)

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • August 2, 2011 1:02 AM
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On August 1, 1981, MTV: Music Television launched, changing the landscape of American music forever! I was 7 years old on that day, and was likely sleeping at the time, given that the launch happened at 12:01 am. Below, watch a recording of the very first moments of the network, including the first aptly-selected Buggles’ hit Video Killed the Radio Star.
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Nelson Mandela Was Born Today... Watch "Madiba: The Life and Times of Nelson Mandela" Now

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • July 18, 2011 1:14 AM
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Today in history... July 18th, 1918, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, anti-apartheid activist and later the first South African president to be elected in a fully democratic election, serving from 1994 to 1999, was born in Mvezo, a village in the district of Umtata, in Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
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John Coltrane Died Today... Watch "The World According To John Coltrane" Now

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • July 17, 2011 12:55 PM
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Today in history... July 17, 1967, John William Coltrane died from liver cancer at Huntington Hospital in Long Island, NY.
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Bill Cosby Was Born Today... Your Favorite Cosby Memories?

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • July 12, 2011 5:53 AM
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Today in history, July 12th, 1937, William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He's 74 years old today.
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Lena Horne Was Born Today... In 1964 Santiago Alvarez Directed "Now"

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • June 30, 2011 5:12 AM
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“My identity is very clear to me now. I am a black woman. I’m free. I no longer have to be a ‘credit.’ I don’t have to be a symbol to anybody; I don’t have to be a first to anybody. I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I’d become. I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.”
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