When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

The richest actresses of old Hollywood influenced film culture through box office draw, trendsetting style, and financial ...

European cinema helped to produce much of summer noir’s lexicon of themes, settings, and archetypes: Its fascination with the ...

While actress Loretta Devine has been a household name in numerous Black homes across the country, her time in Hollywood hasn’t always been easy. Sharing advice for aspiring actresses at ESSENCE ...

T he Golden Age of Hollywood was a period of Hollywood that lasted from the advent of talkies in 1927 until the New Hollywood ...

It begins: “First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist,” and then moves on to the persecution of Socialists, trade unionists and Jews.

David 'Syd' Lawrence of Gloucestershire County Cricket Team, the first British-born black cricketer to play for England, smiles on June 2, 1998. Lawrence has died at the age of 61. — Photo/PA via AP ...

Black Panther Actress Passes Away at 95 As soon as you saw her on the big screen, it was like she was destined to play royalty. Dorothy Steel was 95-year-old actress who died Friday morning at her ...

Kotobukiya announced it will sell the black variant of the Kojima Productions Ludens model kit that lets someone build a figure of a female version of the company’s mascot ahead of the Death ...

VIOLA DAVIS AND HER EGOT STATUS The actress also made history as the first Black actress to achieve the “Triple Crown of Acting”—winning an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony.

Redemption Holding Co. has completed its acquisition of Utah-based Holladay Bank & Trust, making it the first time a bank has been owned by a Black-led investment group in the Western U.S.

Omaha just elected its first Black mayor, giving this year's Juneteenth celebrations new energy. The city wants to mark the occasion by being a model for unity during a time of divisiveness.