by Good Black News | May 26, 2020 | Empowerment & Inspirational, News, State & National |
(photo of wrongfully convicted brothers Wiley Bridgeman and Kwame Ajamu via moguldom.com)Earlier this month, the city of Cleveland agreed to pay a combined $18 million to Rickey Jackson, Wiley Bridgeman and his brother Kwame Ajamu, three men who spent decades in...
by Good Black News | May 13, 2020 | Empowerment & Inspirational, Entertainment, Music, News, State & National |
[embedded content] by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) It’s no secret how much the Good Black News team loves and reveres Stevie Wonder, as we have been celebrating him throughout May with various tributes, posts and playlists on the main page and across...
by Good Black News | May 5, 2020 | Empowerment & Inspirational, Music, News, State & National |
Jericho Brown, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Colson Whitehead (photos via commons.wikipedia.org and nikolehannahjones.com)by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) The Pulitzer Prize winners for 2020 were announced yesterday. Notable among them were Colson Whitehead for...
by Good Black News | Apr 25, 2020 | Empowerment & Inspirational, Entertainment, jazz, Music, News, State & National |
Ella Fitzgerald receiving her Honorary Doctorate in Music at Harvard University in 1990 (photo: Charles Krupa)by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Although I’m typically calm-if-a-bit-nerdy when I meet artists I admire, there is one time in my life I fully lost...
by Good Black News | Apr 7, 2020 | Empowerment & Inspirational, Entertainment, Music, News, State & National |
[embedded content] by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) GBN delights in the opportunity to commemorate the birth of Billie Holiday, one of America’s most talented singing artists, on what would have been her 105th birthday. Born Eleanora Fagan on April 7,...
