Charlene Butts Ligon made a homecoming last week to promote the book she wrote about her famous mother, during the weekend her Norfolk hometown was observing the birthday...
HAMPTON ROADS On March 31, The United Negro Fund (UNCF) will introduce its Mayors’ Masked Ball to the Hampton Roads area. The star-studded Black tie fundraiser...
ATLANTA The King Center leads the nation and world in the global commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination and the...
Jennifer Hudson may have risen to fame as a contestant on American Idol in 2004, starred as Effie White in the movie Dreamgirls, and won a...
(TriceEdneyWire.com) “Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. “Where did this man get this wisdom and these...
Jenifer Lewis, affectionately nicknamed “Auntie” in Black Hollywood, recently made a special appearance at the Duke Ellington School of Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. where she...
In November, Della Reese died at age 86. She starred as heaven-sent Tess on the television series “Touched by an Angel,” a role many Americans remember from...
Fifty years ago, a tragic accident ended the groundbreaking career of Major Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., a Chicago native and stellar Air Force pilot who became...
HAMPTON The author of Hidden Figures is working on two new projects. Black entrepreneurs who lived in mid-century Baltimore will grace the pages of one of...
(TriceEdneyWire.com) When hearing that master dancer, choreographer, and actress, Carmen de Lavallade, 86, would be one of the 2017 Kennedy Honors recipients, my first reaction was,...