Discover the magic of Disney’s new animated series set in Africa, featuring captivating stories that celebrate culture, class, comedy, and cuteness.
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“The Last Slave Ship” by Ben Raines & “The Black Joke” by A.E. Rooks
You can only imagine. There was fear, of course, but also pain and a feeling of suffocation. Surely, there was a sense of embarrassment when clothes were lost and bodily smells were unavoidable. Outrage, too, that was surely present, but you can only imagine. If you’re compelled to know, read these two great new books […]
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PRESS ROOM: Celebrate Soulfully Returns to Walt Disney World Resort as it Debuts at Disneyland Resort This February
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Guests can discover celebratory eats inspired by Black stories and new dishes brought to life by Black chefs at select locations throughout Walt Disney World Resort. And across Walt Disney World Resort, “Cooking with Soul” featured menu items will spotlight soul food dishes and the talented chefs who create them.
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IN MEMORIAM: Dr. Helen Chavis Othow Dies at 89
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Born April 21, 1932, in Oxford, North Carolina, Dr. Othow was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin Chavis, Sr; a Prince Hall mason and superintendent of African American child-care institutions, and Elisabeth R. Chavis, a writer and public school teacher for 65 years.
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World dignitaries react to death of Bishop Desmond Tutu
Long before Nelson Mandela won his freedom from 27 years of imprisonment fighting apartheid in South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu earned the moniker “the nation’s conscience.”
White and Black residents of the popular African nation lauded the bishop for his relentless fight to unite races and end the racist system of apartheid.
South Africa’s leading advocate for change and reconciliation under a Black majority rule and the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Bishop Tutu, died in Cape Town on December 26 at the age of 90.
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Black Is Brilliant: De Beers Showcases Designers
NNPA NEWSWIRE — For Mateo, the world-famous and self-taught designer whose collection earned selection by the Smithsonian Museum for featuring and selling at the African American Museum of Art and Culture, participating in the #BlackisBrilliant campaign is all about helping Africans who need it most. “I normally ignore everything, but when [De Beers] kept writing, I said ‘let me respond’ because De Beers is synonymous with diamonds,” Mateo told NNPA Newswire.
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OP-ED: A Black Happy Thanksgiving 2021
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Poverty and unemployment within our families and communities are now on a steady decrease after years of increasing economic disparities even before the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Black America. We express our condolences to those families who have suffered deaths from that deadly pandemic that continues to disproportionately hit our communities.
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District of Columbia Native Mans a Radio During a Simulated Mass Casualty Exercise
NNPA NEWSWIRE — U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Kevin Bostick, from Washington D.C., mans a radio and relays critical information to his team during a simulated mass casualty exercise at the Michaud Expeditionary Medical Facility on Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti (CLDJ).
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Gates Foundation’s Annual Goalkeepers Report Finds Stark Disparities in COVID-19 Impacts
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Organizations are committed to helping. There is a genuine commitment, even at the United Nations when we take stock of what we are doing, there is a genuine interest in what we’re doing,” Olufunke Olufon, the senior communications officer of Global Communications and Engagement for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA).
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FILM REVIEW: Coming 2 America
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The commissary at Tyler Perry’s studios must have been packed during the shoot. Hefty main cast. Lots of supporting roles. Extras in abundance. Murphy plays a prince, but he is truly the king of Black comedy — and luminous. The Nigerian sounding accent, wicked smiles, dramatic acting and horsey laughs. He plays a host of other characters too, the most frenetic is rock/soul musician Randy Watson, a Rick James knock off in a powder blue outfit warbling “We Are Family.” Equally disarming is Wesley Snipes as the duplicitous snake Izzi. He’s wonderfully evil.
