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Angela Bassett makes her directorial debut with the Lifetime Original Movie “Whitney Houston,” due in 2015. The film is about Whitney’s marriage to Bobby Brown. The film will follow their hesdlin-making relationship from the time they first met to their courtship and rocky marriage. Lifetime notes, “Throughout it all, difficulties followed the superstar couple while they dealt with the overwhelming […]

The first thing that strikes many about Amiri Baraka‘s poetry, most especially his later works, is that it carried the sharp tone of an oppressed,…

Countee Cullen (pictured), a poet who rose to fame during the Harlem Renaissance, was a contemporary of famed writer Zora Neale Hurston. Cullen amassed an…

Tuskegee Institute student Samuel “Sammy” Younge‘s (pictured) death was an unfortunate first in the history books as it relates to the Civil Rights Movement. On…

Abolitionist John Brown and his attempted armed overthrow of slavery met its end after his raid on Harper’s Ferry, Va. was thwarted by enemy forces.…