Austen Parros, an actor driven by passion and creativity, reflects on his journey from theater to television, the spiritual depth of his craft, and how acting fuels his soul while balancing artistry, career, and personal life.
“Do it scared. Do it with fear because the payout is almost always much better than the risk that you’re taking.” These words, spoken by Jason James, sum up a philosophy that carried him from his hometown of Waterbury, Connecticut, to dancing to the competitive beat of Los Angeles’ dance streets.
Shah G. Onwuka, an actress and producer from East LA, defies doubt and embraces her true calling as a storyteller across film, television, and theater.
Navy veteran Daniel J. Adams’ journey from military service to filmmaking highlights the challenges of transitioning careers and offers valuable lessons for veterans pursuing creative industries.
Viola Fletcher and her brother Hughes Van Ellis’s acquisition of Ghanaian citizenship is a significant milestone in their long and remarkable lives. As survivors of one of the worst race massacres in American history, their journey to Ghana represents a symbolic homecoming and a powerful reminder of the resilience and perseverance of the African spirit.
Actress Karen Bankhead’s alter ego – Etta Mae Mumphries – is out to inspire, uplift and let you know she knows everybody.
This year’s Black History Month theme, “Black Health and Wellness,” opens space for us to call into focus our self-determined and self-sustaining ways of knowing, working and struggling to achieve, protect, promote and sustain our health, health care and healing in a society which is the source of so much of our preventable sickness, needless suffering, and underserved deaths. And thus arises the undeniable need for righteous and relentless struggle, not only to achieve justice and end oppression, but also to achieve a comprehensive radical racial healing.
To much of the world the late Toni Morrison was a novelist, celebrated for such classics as “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon” and “The Bluest Eye.”
Believers can praise and worship the Lord because they know the Lord and they knew what the Lord had done. They knew of the goodness of the Lord.
Emmy-nominated choreographer, creative director, and entrepreneur Laurieann Gibson is ready to tell her story in her debut book.
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Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), who began his grassroots political activism being a civil rights champion through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Tougaloo College, will receive the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) 2020 National Leadership Award.
Jackson is the founder of the Impact Network, an African American inspirational television network.