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California Science Center to host West Coast Debut of America I Am: The African American Imprint Exhibition

Sentinel News ServiceOctober 15, 2009

California Science Center to host West Coast Debut of America I Am: The African American Imprint Exhibition Los Angeles will be home to the west coast debut of America I AM: The African American Imprint, a touring exhibition presented by broadcaster Tavis Smiley that celebrates nearly 500 years of African American contributions to the U.S. The showing at the California Science Center from October 30, 2009 to April 10, 2010, will be the third stop on the exhibition’s 10-city, four-year tour, following Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center and the Atlanta Civic Center. America I AM will be a nearly 13,000 square-foot

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Denzel Washington to Receive AFI Life Achievement Award

Associated PressOctober 11, 2018

The American Film Institute is honoring Denzel Washington with a Life Achievement Award. The organization said Friday that Washington will receive the award at a Gala Tribute on June 6 in Los Angeles. It will be broadcast on TNT.

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Denzel Washington hands over to his son Malcolm and keeps August Wilson in the family

JAKE COYLE AP Film WriterSeptember 15, 2024

August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” deals profoundly with ancestry and heritage, which makes it all the more fitting that the new film adaptation, produced by Denzel Washington and directed by his son Malcolm, is a family affair.

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Frazier and Caldwell Discuss New Book on Leimert Park and KAOS Network

Alyssah O. Hall, Contributing WriterNovember 2, 2023

In the winter of 2017, Taj Frazier began working with Ben Caldwell to help Caldwell catalog and organize his expansive archive of work as an ethnographer and documentarian.

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November 18: The movie Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington, premiered on this date in 1992

Black365.comNovember 18, 2021

November 18: The movie Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington, premiered on this date in 1992

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Cicely Tyson, the Iconic and Legendary Black Woman of Hollywood

Saybin Roberson Contributing WriterFebruary 4, 2021

The world was taken for a surprise Thursday, January 28 when the news broke that legendary actress Cicely Tyson had passed away at the age of 96. The pioneering Hollywood actress left a legacy of grace, beauty, and immeasurable talent after starring in television shows and films for over 60 years.

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Black365December 28, 2019

Actor, director, and producer Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. was born in Mount Vernon, NY, 1954.

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Executive Producer Tracey Edmonds brings sexy intrigue to BET’s ‘Games People Play’

Lapacazo Sandoval, Contributing WriterApril 25, 2019

“ It’s a lot of smoke and mirrors to relationships in Los Angeles”

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The Colorism of Race: Bill Duke

Mary L. Datcher Special to the NNPA from The Chicago DefenderApril 23, 2015

Bill Duke (courtesy photo) Bill Duke is one of America’s most prolific actors and directors as he continues to capture the topics that challenge people to think consciously on social issues. His latest project, Light Girls, is a documentary film and book as a follow-up to his Dark Girls film based on the serious problem of skin color discrimination within certain ethnic cultures — specifically the African American community. Having a distinguished and long career that has brought him from his hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York to studying drama at Boston University and continuing further instruction at New York University’s

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