Jennifer Hudson Prepares for Broadway Debut in ‘The Color Purple’
Oscar and Grammy winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) will make her Broadway debut in a revival of The Color Purple, the musical version...
Harlem Jazz Queen Florence Mills: The "Queen of Happiness," Harlem's "Blackbird&q
On this date {January 25] in 1896 Florence Mills was born. She was an African American singer, dancer. From Washington D.C., she was...
Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones to Star in ‘The Gin Game’ on Broadway
Multiple award-winning actors Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones will appear together on stage for the first time in almost 50 years in a...
Aida Overton Walker: "Queen of the Cakewalk"
Born on Februray 18, 1880, Aida Overton Walker was a singer, dancer, actress, and choreographer, regarded as the leading African American...
Lupita Nyong’o Hits the Theater in Danai Gurira's Liberia Civil War Drama ''Eclipsed'
Talk about a formidable one-two punch! I've previously teased the possibility of Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira working together on the...
Oscar Micheaux: "The Czar of Black Hollywood"
Oscar Micheaux was the quintessential self-made man. Novelist, film-maker and relentless self-promoter, Micheaux was born on a farm near...
African American Conductors Make History on Broadway
A watershed moment, a major milestone, recently took place on Broadway, with the orchestras of four major shows led under the batons of...
