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BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA premieres tonight on PBS at 8 p.m.
“Upward of 120 million people of African descent live in Latin America today,’’ says Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who, even though he is a scholar of African-American history, says he was staggered by the number when he first learned of it.
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New book revisits assassination of Malcolm X, names alleged triggerman
Forty-six years after Malcolm X predicted his own assassination, the question of who pulled the trigger remains unanswered among many scholars who study his life.
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Alumni Roundup Partners with Planet Hollywood Las Vegas
Planet Hollywood is proud to announce a HBCU partnership with Alumni Roundup to offer a special discounted room rate for students over the age of 21 and alumni of HBCUs. This offer is amazing and the first of its kind in gaming history provided by Caesar’s Entertainment.
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Ashley Judd Calls Hip-Hop a ‘Rape Culture,’ ?uestlove responds
“I believe that the social construction of gender, the cultural beliefs and practices that divide the sexes and institutionalize and normalize the unequal treatment of girls and women and most nefariously, incessantly sexualize girls and women, is the root cause of poverty and suffering around the world.”
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Andrew Young and MLK III to launch broadcast TV network for African Americans
The network, which plans to debut this fall, will go after blacks in the 25-54 demographic becoming the first over-the-air broadcast network to do so.
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What’s on your list? 10 best African-American drama movies
There have been countless films made about the black experience but only a few can be the 10 best African-American drama movies of all time. Some are classics and some are more modern films, but all tell real stories of love, hardship and overcoming obstacles.
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Can Hampton beat Duke?
Back in 2001, Hampton shocked the college basketball world when the Pirates, a 15 seed knocked off number 2 seed Iowa State. Hampton is just one of 4 teams seeded 15 to knock off a number 2. So history is on the side of the Pirates.
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First African American Polo Team Wins National Title
A polo team from Philadelphia made history in central Virginia on Sunday when they became the first all African-American team to win a national title.