Devon Glover, Spoken Word Artist, Educator and shares two treasured career moments Intersecting Hip Hop in Education.
learn more*Willie Best was born on this date in 1916. sometimes known as Sleep n’ Eat, he was an African American television and film actor. A native of Sunflower, Mississippi, William “Willie” Bestcame to Hollywood, California as a chauffeur for a vacationing white couple. He decided to stay in the region and began his performing career with a traveling show in southern California. He was regularly employed […]
learn moreDaren Hill, artist, visual explorer, art entrepreneur shares his definition of Creative Placemakers
learn more*On this date in 1968, Franklin appeared in the Peanuts cartoon. He was the first African American character used by Charles Shultz the cartoonist creator of Peanuts. In the episode Charlie Brown had lost his beach ball, it was found and returned to him by a boy named Franklin. The episode ended with the two proceeding […]
learn more*Jalal Nuriddin was born on this date in 1944. He was an African American poet and musician. Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin was born Lawrence Padilla in the Fort Greene housing project in Brooklyn, New York. As a youth, Nuriddin ran with a local gang, the Fort Greene Chaplains, they fought a street rivalry with the Bed-Stuy […]
learn morePlaywrite, Author, and Artistic Director Carlyle Brown shares a personal example of generational intersectionality and why he admires his grandmother
learn moreLewis Whitlock, educator, choreographer, producer explains the differences in acting for stage vs acting for media
learn more*Frederic Barthodi was born on this date 1834. He was a white French artist and sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty for France as a gift to the United States of America. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was born in Colmar, France, to a family of Italian and German Protestant heritage. Bartholdi was the youngest of their four children, and one of […]
learn moreProfessor Emeriti of Dance Mary Easter shares what she desires for more black women and girls
learn more*Earle Hyman was born on this date in 1926. He was an African and Native American stage and television actor. Born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina he is the son of son of Zachariah and Maria Lilly (maiden name, Plummer). His Native heritage included (Tuscarora, Haliwa-Saponi/Nottoway). George Earle Hyman attended public schools in Brooklyn. The […]
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