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Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor They join the next film by director Vicky Wight. Period reports that the Happiness for beginners The writer/director works in his next movie, The body is waterAnd he has launched Whitlock and Ellis-Taylor with Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Stephen Rea, Aidan Quinn, Eva Birthistle, Allen Leech, Fionnula Flanagan, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Brongh Gallagher. What to know about “the body of water” and its plot The film is described as “an intercultural story about the loss, healing and strangers that refuse to let you disappear.” Set in West Cork, Ireland, the film “follows a man fading…

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Earl Graves Sr., the founder and publisher of Black Enterprise magazine and an iconic entrepreneur in the African American business community, died Sunday after a prolonged battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Graves Sr. was 85. Graves’ son, Earl “Butch” Graves Jr., confirmed his father’s passing in a post on Twitter. At 9:22pm this evening, April 6, my Father and Hero Earl Graves Sr., the Founder of @blackenterprise, passed away quietly after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. I loved and admired this giant of a man, and am blessed to be his namesake. LOVE YOU DAD! pic.twitter.com/UoerizfX8a— . (@EarlButchGraves) April 7, 2020 “I…

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Landowners in a predominantly Black town in rural Georgia who have been fighting to keep their properties from falling into the hands of a railroad company were dealt another blow on Wednesday when a state regulatory authority ruled in favor of the railroad.  During a Wednesday session, the Georgia Public Service Commission unanimously approved Sandersville Railroad Co.’s proposed rail spur in Sparta — a project that would cut through the historically Black community. The five-member commission is made up of three white men, Jason Shaw, Tim Echols, and Lauren “Bubba” McDonald. There’s one Black member, Fitz Johnson; and one white…

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Rep. Robin Shackleford (D-Indianapolis), center, and members of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus addressed Gov. Mike Braun’s DEI executive order on Jan. 21, 2025.Brandon Smith / IPB News The Indiana Black Legislative Caucus said Gov. Mike Braun’s executive order ending diversity, equity and inclusion in state government sends a message that Indiana doesn’t care about fairness. Braun’s order said DEI will be replaced with MEI — merit, excellence and innovation. Black Caucus Chair Earl Harris, Jr. (D-East Chicago) said that perpetuates a false stereotype. “That any person of color, an immigrant or first generation American, woman or…

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TULSA, Okla. — The traffic on Interstate 244 rumbled the ground as a crowd of about 200 gathered between the highway and the historic Vernon AME Church on Monday to commemorate the day a century ago that the church was nearly destroyed.The Rev. Robert Turner, who serves as pastor of the church — one of the only structures to partly survive the race massacre in Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood in which a white mob killed hundreds of Black residents in 1921 — dedicated a prayer wall to the massacre’s victims.”This is the largest crime scene in America that has never been…

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It was going to be the resort of the century for Orange County’s Black beachgoers. In the early 1920s, Black residents in Southern California were abuzz with the hopes that they’d finally have a place to enjoy the beach. Jim Crow-era segregation kept Black communities out of all-white beaches, pools, and other recreational spots. Instead, they were limited to a Santa Monica beach that white residents denigrated as the “Inkwell” — a derogatory name the Black community adopted as a badge of pride — and Bruce’s Beach, a Black resort on Manhattan Beach that the city took from its owners…

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by Charlene Rhinehart January 1, 2020 A little black girl walks into a coffee shop and stops when she sees a black woman by the counter. With excitement and curiosity in her eyes, the little girl asks, “Do you own this?” Kelli Lemon, the owner of the Urban Hang Suite RVA social cafe, bends down as she looks at the little girl in her eyes and says, “Yes, what do you want to own?”  A powerful voice in the Richmond community. Lemon is exuding black excellence through her work and is bringing others on the journey with her. She’s a…

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