Aaliyah’s turn as a vampire in the nu-metal film Queen of the Damned is an often-overlooked part of her legacy

Aaliyah’s Estate Releases Statement Calling Out Those Trying To ‘Leech Off Of Aaliyah’s Life Work’

Aaliyah's estate is fed up with people trying to release the late singer's music and push unauthorized projects by using "shadowy tactics of deception."

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Fruitvale Station

Fruitvale Station is a 2013 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler. It is Cooglers first feature-length film and is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man who was killed in 2009 by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale

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2009

The Power of the Press: African-American News Publications in the Jim Crow Era

Overview of the African-American

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Black America speaks. America should listen.

30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in

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Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker was a dancer and singer who later became a Civil Rights activist. Her birth name was Freda Josephine McDonald and she was born on June 3, 1906, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother used to be a dancer as well, but she gave up her aspirations in order to raise her children. Her father

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Jun

3

1906

Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard , in full Athol Harold Lannigan Fugard (born June 11, 1932, Middelburg, South Africa), South African dramatist, actor, and director who became internationally known for his penetrating and pessimistic analyses of South African society during the apartheid

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Jun

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1932

Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer is a contemporary African American actress. She is recognized for her role in the film, The Help, as an outspoken maid. For her remarkable performance she won the prestigious Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award among other

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May

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1970

Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones, Jr., or simply known as Quincy Jones, is a distinguished American musician. Very few Jazz enthusiasts are recognized as the biggest names in the music industry, and Jones being one of them, is unquestionably one of the brightest and trendiest legends the world has seen. While

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Mar

14

1933

Trotter, William Monroe (1872-1934)

WilliamMonroe Trotter was a major early twentieth century civil rights activist knownprimarily for launching the first major challenge to the political dominance ofTuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington and as an inspiration for the formation of theNational Association for the Advancement

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Apr

7

1934

Black ThenMurray Henderson: Philanthropist & Funeral Home Operator

Murray Henderson was a philanthropist who started and operated his own funeral home. Henderson was born January 2, 1883 in Algiers. He attended McDonogh No. 5 Elementary School. He later studied as an apprentice at the John A. Barrett Funeral Home. Henderson started his funeral home business in

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South African

LOTTO Results edit post Daily Lotto results for Sunday, 28 February 2021 2021-02-28 edit post Lotto and Lotto Plus results for Saturday, 27 February 2021

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Long, Nate (1930-2002)

Nate Long was a filmmaker, television producer, director, stuntman, actor and teacher who worked both in Hollywood and the Pacific Northwest. Long was born in Philadelphia in 1930. He joined the Air Force, became a military policeman and completed his service at Paine Field near

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Nov

14

2002

R. Kelly’s Lawyer Says He And Aaliyah Had ‘Sexual Contact’ While She Was Underage - Blavity

As R.Kelly stands trial for allegations of sex trafficking, it was recently revealed that he engaged in "underage sexual contact" with late R&B singer Aaliyah . The damning statement was shared during a pretrial hearing and came from one of Kelly's lawyers who said "The defense does concede that Mr

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Black America speaks. America should listen.

30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in

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Fans rejoice as Aaliyah's self-titled, final album hits streaming platforms

Twenty years after its initial release, fans rejoice as Aaliyah's self-titled and final album finally hits streaming platforms. It has The post Fans rejoice as Aaliyah's self-titled, final album hits streaming platforms appeared first on TheGrio.

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and

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Cooley High

Cooley High, directed by Michael Schultz, is a comedic drama that follows the narrative of high school seniors and best-friends, Leroy “Preach” Jackson (Glynn Turman) and Richard “Cochise” Morris (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs). Written by Eric Monte, and produced by American

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Minister Who Married R. Kelly & 15-Year-Old Aaliyah Details Shotgun Hotel Room Wedding To Court

R.Kelly's federal sex trafficking trial is trucking along, and the prosecution is not playing. Wednesday (Sep.1), the minister who officiated Kelly's 1994 wedding to Aaliyah testified under subpoena.

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In Praise of Mayme Clayton: Images of the African American West

Dr. Mayme Clayton was born in Arkansas and transplanted to California, where she served as law librarian at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), beginning in 1957. In 1969 she helped put together the university’s African American Studies Center Library. But her most astounding

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Quvenzhané Wallis

Quvenzhané Wallis is a child actress, model and singer. She was born on August 28, 2003 to a teacher named Qulyndreia, and a truck driver named Venjie Wallis, Sr. Her unique name reflects a combination of her parents’ names and the word “zhané” is Swalihi for fairy. She has two sisters

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Jun

27

2012

Lincoln Motion Picture Company

African American audiences were generally ignored by the major motion picture studios in the first two decades of the 20th Century. Nonetheless, demand for films aimed at black theaters in both the South and larger Northern cities prompted the formation of several “black” motion picture

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Terry McMillan, novelist born

Terry McMillan

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Oct

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1951

Gordon Parks

Belonging to Fort Scott, Kansas, Gordon Parks was born on November 30, 1912 to a family whose head was a vegetable farmer. Being black, Parks faced extreme forms of discrimination as a child and was forced to attend a segregated elementary school. His race also prohibited him from active

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Nov

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1912

Hollywood’s Movie Review: Miss Juneteenth

Miss Juneteenth is a labor of love for first-time director and Fort Worth native, Channing Godfrey

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Screenwriter With a Black Animation Screenplay That Rivals the Movie "Sing" is Seeking Representation

Nationwide — Leon Fowler, who has been writing for over 30 years, has come up with a screenplay for a major motion picture animation for children of color (something rarely seen in Hollywood) that will rival the highly successful movie

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South Africa: Constitutional Court Accused of Taking Too Long to Rule On Crucial Election Case

[GroundUp] "I fear a further delay may begin to jeopardise the election process itself" says independent candidate Zackie Achmat

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The African American Experience in Italy, 1852 to 2013

In the following article longtime BlackPast.org contributor and San Diego State University Librarian Robert Fikes discusses African Americanemigrants to and visitors in

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Aaliyah's estate releases statement over 'unauthorized projects' | The Atlanta Voice

The estate of Aaliyah has a message to those who have tried to release unauthorized projects about the late star. The singer, who was born Aaliyah Dana Haughton, died August 25, 2001, at the age of 22 in a plane crash that also took the lives of eight others. Aaliyah's estate announced last year

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Booker Washington in Seattle, 1913

An unusual incidence of interracial solidarity between blacks and Asian Americans occurred during Booker T. Washington’s visit to Seattle. In March 1913, Washington embarked on a national speaking tour in order to raise money for Tuskegee Institute, the chronically underfunded “Normal and

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Author Claims Aaliyah Was Drugged Before Death In Upcoming Book, ‘Baby Girl: Better Known As Aaliyah’

"Baby Girl: Better Known As Aaliyah," will be released on August 17.

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