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01/29/2025

01/29/2025

Black-owned brand to support at Target

01/29/2025

Very excited to be at The Bronx Book Festival in conversation with Ebony Ladelle, author of Love Radio June 21.

Just found out Jason Reynolds is the YA keynote. Wowwww 🙌🏾

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/8th-annual-bronx-book-festival-tickets-1073226151309?aff=Kennedy

01/29/2025

Meryl Streep became her own hero while trying to escape the deadly L.A. wildfires earlier this month. More details on how the actress use wire cutters to evacuate: bit.ly/4aFllrG

01/29/2025

“The Negro Mother” by Langston Hughes

"Children, I come back today
To tell you a story of the long dark way
That I had to climb, that I had to know
In order that the race might live and grow.
Look at my face dark as the night
Yet shining like the sun with love’s true light
I am the child they stole from the sand
three hundred years ago in Africa’s land.
I am the dark girl who crossed the wide sea
Carrying in my body the seed of the free.
I am the woman who worked in the field
Bringing the cotton and the corn to yield.
I am the one who labored as a slave,
Beaten and mistreated for the work I gave
Children sold away from me, husband sold, too.

No safety , no love, no respect was I due.
Three hundred years in the deepest South:
But God put a song and a prayer in my mouth.

God put a dream like steel in my soul.
Now, through my children, I’m reaching the goal.

Now, through my children, young and free,
I realize the blessings deed to me.
I couldn’t read then. I couldn’t write.
I had nothing, back there in the night.
Sometimes, the valley was filled with tears,
But I kept trudging on through the lonely years.

Sometimes, the road was hot with the sun,
But I had to keep on till my work was done:
I had to keep on! No stopping for me
I was the seed of the coming Free.
I nourished the dream that nothing could smother

Deep in my breast, the Negro mother.
I had only hope then, but now through you,
Dark ones of today, my dreams must come true:

All you dark children in the world out there,
Remember my sweat, my pain, my despair.
Remember my years, heavy with sorrow.
And make of those years a torch for tomorrow.

Make of my pass a road to the light
Out of the darkness, the ignorance, the night.

Lift high my banner out of the dust.
Stand like free men supporting my trust.
Believe in the right, let none push you back.
Remember the whip and the slaver’s track.
Remember how the strong in struggle and strife.

Still bar you the way, and deny you life.
But march ever forward, breaking down bars.

Look ever upward at the sun and the stars.
Oh, my dark children, may my dreams and my prayers Impel you forever up the great stairs.

For I will be with you till no white brother
Dares keep down the children of the Negro Mother."

Photo: Jackson, Mississippi circa 1935.

01/28/2025

An Altadena man thought he had lost the engagement ring he bought for his girlfriend when their home was destroyed in the Eaton Fire.

When he miraculously found it in the rubble, he immediately got down on one knee and proposed on the spot. https://abcnews.visitlink.me/VTfmr4

01/28/2025

Meet the Couple Raising $12M to Purchase What Will be Poconos’ First Black-Owned Hotel Spa Resort

01/20/2025

Nikole Hannah-Jones - Investigative journalist, known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States. She joined The New York Times as a staff writer in April 2015, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2020 for her work on The 1619 Project. Hannah-Jones is the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications, where she also founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy.

01/20/2025

Angela Bassett and her daughter Bronwyn Vance.

01/20/2025

The 2025 !

We are behind the scenes as the legendary Jenifer Lewis For Real walks the carpet! Tonight, she will be honored with the prestigious Yolanda D. King Higher Ground Award.

is a trailblazer in the arts and a passionate advocate for change, embodying the spirit of this incredible honor.

Don’t miss this unforgettable moment—tune in to the airing of the 2025 Beloved Community Awards on February 1 at 7 PM at TheKingCenter.org.

01/20/2025

We invite you to join us for Dream Center's Jazz Night at Vibrato Grill Jazz on Wednesday January 22nd. Contribute to Wildfire Relief efforts while experiencing an unforgettable evening featuring live music, gourmet dining, and exclusive live and silent auctions—all to support the Dream Center’s Disaster Recovery Efforts.

Hear inspiring stories from families whose lives have been transformed by the Dream Center as we come together to aid those impacted by the recent wildfires.

Your financial support will help provide shelter, resources, and hope to families in need. Be apart of this impactful night and help make a difference.

📣 Visit http://www.vibratogrilljazz.com/music/dream-center-2025 to reserve!

01/20/2025

Happy birthday Dolly Parton.
Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist, known primarily for her work in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Dolly Parton made her album debut in 1967, with her album Hello, I'm Dolly. With steady success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continuing into the 1980s; Parton's subsequent albums in the later part of the 1990s were lower in sales. However, in the new millennium, Parton achieved commercial success again and has released albums on independent labels since 2000, including albums on her own label, Dolly Records.