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Aretha Franklin performs in "Amazing Grace," a film documenting her 1972 live album of the same name. (Courtesy of NEON)

Franklin’s ‘Amazing Grace’ Documentary Finally Hits Theaters

by Brenda C. Siler April 15, 2019December 21, 2021

Politician and author Stacey Abrams (left) shares the spotlight with CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin during an interview at the University of the District of Columbia on April 9. (Brenda C. Siler/The Washington Informer)

Stacey Abrams Sets Sights on Next Political Race

by Brenda C. Siler April 10, 2019October 31, 2020

Lupita Nyong'o (left), Winston Duke (rear) and Evan Alex star in the thriller "Us." (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Universal Pictures)

Jordan Peele Brings ‘Us’ to Howard U.

by Brenda C. Siler March 21, 2019October 31, 2020

From left: Ta-Nehisi Coates, former staff writer at The Atlantic, Nikole Hannah-Jones, staff writer for the New York Times Magazine, Jelani Cobb, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Anthony Brown Jr., moderator and independent journalist, participate in the "Power of the Pen" panel discussion at Cramton Auditorium at Howard University on March 6. (Justin Knight/Howard University)

National Writers Provide Life Lessons at HU Forum

by Brenda C. Siler March 13, 2019October 31, 2020

Ivory Toldson, author of "No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People," signs a copy of his book for Ernest Green, one of the "Little Rock Nine," during an event at the National Press Club in northwest D.C. on Feb. 25. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Black Experience

HU Professor Fights Misleading Stats About Blacks

by Brenda C. Siler March 13, 2019October 31, 2020

Ravi Coltrane (Courtesy photo)

Ravi Coltrane Charts Own Jazz Path

by Brenda C. Siler March 6, 2019October 31, 2020

From left: Bob Dorough (photo by Garth Woods), Abdullah Ibrahim (photo by Marina Umari), Maria Schneider (photo by Jimmy and Dena Katz), and Stanley Crouch (photo by Frank Stewart, courtesy of Jazz at Lincoln Center)

National Endowment for the Arts Names 2019 Jazz Masters

by Brenda C. Siler March 6, 2019October 31, 2020

Over 16,000 high school students and parents fill the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest on Feb. 23 during the 17th annual HBCU Festival presented by the Alfred Street Baptist Church. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)

HBCU Festival Links Students, Parents with Recruiters

by Brenda C. Siler February 27, 2019October 31, 2020

"Family in Church Clothes, New York," taken by Russell Lee, is currently on display at the David Driskell Center at the University of Maryland as part of the exhibition "Posing Beauty in African American Culture."

Arts, Black Experience

Exhibition Shows Range of Black Beauty

by Brenda C. Siler February 20, 2019October 31, 2020

Cyndii Johnson stars as Octavia in "BLKS" at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in D.C. on Feb. 8. (Teresa Castracane/Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)

‘BLKS’ Explores Roller-Coaster Lives of Three Female Friends

by Brenda C. Siler February 13, 2019October 31, 2020

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