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American Airlines, a global company that connects people from different cultures and communities around the world, is celebrating Black History Month by paying tribute to timeless African-American films that shape our culture and enhance American cinema. During the months of February and March, the airline’s in-flight entertainment will focus on African-American films, playing must-see movies [...]

Students gather outside one of the classrooms at Mayukwayukwa High School, Zambia. Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, the world’s largest vertically integrated photovoltaic (“PV”) manufacturer, known as “Yingli Solar”, announced that the Company and SolarAid have lit up Mayukwayukwa High School in Kaoma, Zambia by installing a solar PV system on the newly built [...]

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, celebrates the life and music of Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, honoring the American composer as Artist of the Month for Black History Month, February 2014. A century ago, in 1914, a teenage Duke Ellington, working in Washington DC as a soda jerk by day and aspirant [...]

The North Carolina Study Abroad/Global Engagement (SAGE) Partnership, a collaborative among that state’s 11 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in 2014 will boost the percentage of global, marketplace-ready students. Working with IES Abroad and IERC Education Foundation for nearly a year, NC SAGE Partnership is introducing a slate of international courses that will integrate [...]

The U.S. Postal Service paid tribute to pioneering Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm with the issuance of a limited-edition 37th Black Heritage Forever Stamp during a special ceremony at Brooklyn Borough Hall in Brooklyn, NY. The Shirley Chisholm Black Heritage Forever Stamp goes on sale today at Post Offices nationwide, online at usps.com/stamps, at the Postal Store on eBay [...]

The third annual “For the Love of R&B”  live music event celebrated R&B trailblazer Tank and his GRAMMY nomination with TGT in the “Best RnB Album of the Year” category this year. The exclusive, invitation-only event, co-hosted by Celebrity Blogger & Personality Jason Lee, took place on Wednesday, Jan. 22nd at The Sayers Club, located at 1645 Wilcox Avenue in Hollywood. The event kicked [...]

The General Motors Foundation will become a founding donor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture through a $1 million grant. GM Foundation President Vivian Pickardpresented the gift to the Museum Founding Director Lonnie G. Bunch III at the Washington Auto Show. “GM and the GM Foundation have a strong legacy of support for the African American Community, [...]

On February 6, “SPIT’IN ANGER: Venom of a Fatherless Son” will premiere at the Spectrum Theater in Albany, New York…The film addresses the underlying issue of anger that dwells in young black males as a result of not having a nurturing relationship with their fathers. The American “family” has changed.  Non-marital births, divorce, single parents, and blended [...]

BET Networks and ICON MANN announced a partnership to celebrate the positive impact that Black men are making domestically and across the globe with the launch of ICON MANN  “28 Men of Change.”   This special Black History Month initiative will share the journeys of 28 contemporary trailblazers whose formula for success includes empowering others, and who credit [...]

Student civil rights activists join hands and sing as they prepare to leave Ohio to register black voters in Mississippi. The 1964 voter registration campaign was known as Freedom Summer. This image and others are now on display in a new exhibit called “1964: Civil Rights at 50″ at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Credit: [...]