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February 13, 2025
President Donald Trump becoming chair of the Kennedy Center was Shonda Rhimes’ cue to resign from the art center's board.
Vanessa Williams, Front Row - February 2024 New York Fashion Week: The Shows
July 29, 2024
Vanessa Williams revealed that Johnny Carson made a “prejudiced” joke about her Miss America pageant win in 1984.
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January 13, 2024
Solange continues to leave her mark in the art world with new performance “In Service to Whom" at the Art…
James Earl Jones, theGrio.com
September 13, 2022
Cort Theatre on Broadway has been renamed after James Earl Jones, the second theater on the Great White Way named…
2022 Jazz At Lincoln Center Gala:  Body and Soul: America Rises Through the Arts
June 8, 2022
The Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman," starring Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke, finds a theater home, announces…
June 7, 2022
Multiple Black artists were nominated in every single Tony Award performance category. But COVID-19 sickened actors and starved box offices.
May 25, 2022
Ford Foundation head Darren Walker was named commander of France's Order of Arts and Letters in New York this week.
May 4, 2022
The orchestra will perform the better-known work from Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges in Detroit.
April 26, 2022
One of the country's oldest and most prestigious literary magazines, Poetry magazine, names Adrian Matejka its first black editor.
April 26, 2022
Iconic poet Sonia Sanchez was awarded the $80K Jackson Poetry Prize, honoring her seven-decade career in the arts.
February 1, 2022
The high-end retailer Saks comes under fire on social media for hawking a small, brass Afro pick online as an…
January 27, 2022
Nikon partners with a Black woman's photography group to donate $50,000 to support then in education and advocacy efforts.
Samuel J. Jackson LaTanya Richardson Jackson thegrio.com
December 13, 2021
LaTanya Richardson and Samuel L. Jackson are donating $5 million toward the renovation of the Spelman’s arts building.
October 17, 2021
One of the pieces of artwork known as the Benin bronzes will be returned to Nigeria after being stolen years…
The Government Of Ghana Signs Historic Agreement With W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Foundation To Build Du Bois Museum Complex
September 22, 2021
The President of the Republic of Ghana plans to construct a state-of-the-art museum complex honoring civil rights pioneer Dr. W.E.B…
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August 25, 2021
Magic City Poetry Festival founder, 31-year-old Ashley M. Jones, has been named the first Black poet laureate for Alabama.
Alvin Ailey, Troy Powell, dance, thegrio.com
July 21, 2020
A dance director at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was fired after allegations of sexual misconduct.
February 21, 2012
SLIDESHOW - These 10 trailblazers are making their mark in areas of the arts where people of color traditionally have…