Mar 24, 2025 | Entertainment, Film
Black excellence is taking over our screens this spring—here are all the upcoming movies and shows you should check out! Spring is officially serving up a fresh wave of Black storytelling on our screens. This season, Black stories are taking center stage across...
Mar 17, 2025 | Entertainment, Women
Notably, Black women have been very successful in business and entertainment. They continue to make great strides in entrepreneurship and the building of generational wealth. In celebration of Women’s History Month, BLACK ENTERPRISE highlights 14 of the wealthiest...
Mar 10, 2025 | Entertainment, Music
Samples continue to be a huge part of our current music culture. Some of the biggest artists in the world have used them to create incredible hit records that have gone on to become classics in their own right. Kendrick Lamar and Mustard did this with the record “Not...
Mar 10, 2025 | Entertainment, History, Music, Women
The Grammy-winning soprano Karen Slack will give the third annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Recital at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. “African Queens,” presented and co-commissioned by Washington Performing Arts, is about as ambitious as a recital could get:...
Feb 17, 2025 | Entertainment, History
In its prime, the Gem Theatre was the heart of Black entertainment in Knoxville, a place where Black Knoxvillians gathered to watch movies and wrestling matches, attend civic events and patronize the approximately 20 connected businesses. The theater opened in 1913...
Feb 3, 2025 | Entertainment, Music
For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled with a collective sense the audience was about to witness history. They were the first to hear composer Edmond Dédé’s opera “Morgiane” – the...
