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The Color Purple: Nominated First African American producer whose film was nominated for Best Picture. 2009: Lee Daniels: Precious: Nominated First African American director whose film was nominated for Best Picture. First time two films with African American producers were nominated for Best Picture in the same year. Broderick Johnson: The ...
A Patch of Blue: Nominated 1968 In the Heat of the Night: Nominated 1971 James Earl Jones: The Great White Hope (Academy Award nominee) Nominated 1987 Dexter Gordon: Round Midnight (Academy Award nominee) Nominated 1988 Denzel Washington: Cry Freedom (Academy Award nominee) Nominated 1989 Forest Whitaker: Bird: Nominated 1993 Denzel Washington ...
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
This stunning autobiography may be the best-known work by Maya Angelou (1928-2014), the Black American poet and civil rights activist, but it’s actually the first in a seven-book series.
The African American Film Critics Association has announced the winners of the 15th annual AAFCA Awards, which honors outstanding achievement in film. “American Fiction,” “The Color Purple ...
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) [2] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.
Famous Black athletes span all sports, from football and basketball to tennis and gymnastics. This article focuses on 10 whose excellence made them household names and changed their sports forever.
This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa.