Sweet/Black Dada Nihilismus - Amiri Baraka(Leroi Jones)&The New York Art Quartet

LONDON — The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local): ___ 2:25 p.m. Serena Williams has won. The 20-time major champion beat older sister Venus 6-4, 6-3 Monday at Wimbledon to advance to the quarterfinals. Both Serena and Venus are five-time champions at the All England Club, but Serena is on track for a true Grand Slam after winning the Australian Open and French Open this year. With Madison Keys and CoCo Vandeweghe also winning Monday, it's the first time three American Read more...

UNTOLD BLACK HISTORY: The Black Chinese: DNA test... Case Closed

NEW ORLEANS -- Thousands trekked to New Orleans this July Fourth weekend to celebrate the much-anticipated 21st annual Essence Festival. This year’s celebration by Essence, one of the leading black women’s magazines, is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to a city still making progress to restore itself from the devastation Hurricane Katrina left behind 10 years ago. More than 500,000 people attended last year’s four-day festival, and this year’s Read more...

Dr John Hope Franklin on meeting Dr W E B Du Bois

On the heels of the whitest Oscars since 1998, Patricia Arquette's semi-accidental rebel call for "gay people and people of color" to fight for women's rights, and a generally rising tide of consciousness about how minorities are treated in Hollywood, HBO announced that it will launch a new fellowship geared specifically towards diversity.

On Wednesday, the network that currently has hit

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