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Opera Lafayette to premiere oldest known opera by black American composer
Givonna Joseph, a mezzo-soprano who founded Opera Créole with her daughter in 2011, first encountered Morgiane in 2014 when a ...
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Activist Fredrika Newton Will Give Black History Month Keynote on Feb. 28
Fredrika Newton, head of The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation and Newton’s widow, will give Bryn Mawr College’s annual Black History Month keynote address at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28, in the Great Hall ...
In the Footsteps of the Enslaved
Bey’s show gets its name from a passage in the second stanza of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the hymn by James Weldon Johnson ...
‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ Filmmaker Ryan White Is Delighted His Assumptions About New Doc Were Wrong: ‘This Is Not a Film About Dying’
The documentarian, alongside producer Tig Notaro, spoke with IndieWire at our festival studio about their tear-jerking new ...
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'She Looked So Different': 'Single White Female' Star Bridget Fonda Looks Unrecognizable In Rare Sighting as Fans Point Out Her Drastic Transformation
It’s been over three decades since actress Bridget Fonda’s lead role in “Single White Female.” She starred in several films ...
Found: A Manuscript That Unlocks a Forgotten Black Composer’s World
Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American ...