As a young artist, Michael Jackson knew he wanted to be legendary.
“I will be magic,” he wrote as a teenager, outlining his plans for his career. “I will be better than every great actor roped in one.”
December 17 1991- Michael Jordan is named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. December 18 1989- Ernest Dickerson wins the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematography for Spike Lee movie, “Do the Right Thing”. December 19 1895- Dr. Carter G. Woodson was born in New Canton, Virginia. Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African American history and founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. December 20 1986- Max Robinson, the first African American news anchor for a major television network, died from Acquired
Faith Hope and Love Unlimited of Los Angeles hosted its 3rd Annual Faith Awards ceremony on October 24 to honor six people for their extraordinary faith and accomplishments in communities across the globe. The dynamic event, held at the Marriot in Marina Del Rey, featured breakfast and entertainment by singer Charlene Moore. Famed actress Margaret “Shug” Avery and actor Ro Brooks served as hosts. The honorees were Phill Wilson, Gabrielle Bullock, Kenneth Chancey, Judyann Elder, Bonita Pilgrim Perkins, and Logan Westbrooks. Wilson accepted his Faith Award via videoconference. As the president and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, Wilson advocates
A new documentary that explores the life and legacy of Tom Bradley, who served an unprecedented 20 years as mayor of Los Angeles, will premiere at Cal State L.A. on Monday, August 10.
After making history at the Little League World Series, pitching phenom Mo’ne Davis traveled to learn about her history.
As part of its NBPC 360 initiative, eight producing teams to compete for up to $150,000 in development funds for their TV, web series pilots Out of a field of 163 applicants, National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), a Harlem-based media arts nonprofit, has selected eight winners for its new incubator program, NBPC 360. The new funding initiative is designed to identify innovative storytellers and to generate quality serial, digital and multiplatform content for television and the Web. Out of a field of 163 applicants, National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), a Harlem-based media arts nonprofit, has selected eight winners for its
The proposed $45 billion Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger was alternately blasted and supported by over two dozen speakers at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) hearing held last Wednesday in San Francisco. In a lengthy public comment portion of the meeting, representatives of non-profits serving African Americans and other people of color, chambers of commerce, consumer advocacy and media groups from throughout the state weighed in on the merits of the proposed merger. If approved, Comcast will be the dominant internet and Cable-TV provider in the state with 1.8 million Cable TV subscribers in the Los Angeles region alone. On
Director Ava DuVernay discusses her new prolific Civil Rights film, Selma Ava DuVernay is a writer, producer, director and distributor of independent film. Winner of the Best Director Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Ava was honored with the 2013 John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award and the Tribeca Film Institute 2013 Affinity Award for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere. She made her directorial debut with the critically-acclaimed 2008 hip hop documentary, This is The Life. A couple years later, she wrote, produced and directed her first narrative feature, I Will Follow, starring Salli Richardson-Whitfield. Prior to directing,
(Agbani Darego) November 13 1913- Dr. Daniel Hale Williams became the first African American elected to the American College of Surgeons. Williams was also the first person to perform open-heart surgery. 1940- The Supreme Court ruled in the Hansberry v. Lee case that Whites could not bar African Americans from White neighborhoods. 1967- Carl Stokes became the first African American mayor for Cleveland, Ohio and a major city in the U.S. November 14 1915- Educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington died at the age of 59. 1934- William Levi Dawson’s Symphony No. 1, Negro Folk Symphony,