The African-American Village

The Dark Knight
You heard it here first: the late Heath Ledger will win an Academy Award for his defining, spine-tingling performance as The Joker.

'Vintage Black Cinema' Movie Poster Stamps Issued
The 42-cent commemorative First-Class stamps were dedicated July 16 at the Newark, NJ, Museum during the Black Film Festival.

Causes Won, Lost & Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What we Know About the Civil War
is an excellent read, likely to leave you rethinking long-held attitudes about the Civil War and wondering how much you might have been manipulated by movies in forming those opinions

Unforgivable! New Yorker Cover Depicts the Obamas as Terrorists
The closer Barack Obama gets to winning the White House, the more determined his adversaries have become to derail his campaign by any means necessary.

Bobby Seale: The Chicago 10 Interview
CHICAGO 10 will have its broadcast premiere on Tuesday, October 22, at 9:00 p.m. ET as the season opener of the award–winning PBS series Independent Lens, hosted by Terrence Howard.

Nationwide Foundation Donates $1 Million to MLK Memorial Project
The Memorial Foundation has hosted Dream Dinners in Los Angeles, Houston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and San Francisco.  The donations surrounding the Atlanta Dream Dinner raises the Memorial Foundation's fundraising total to $94.8 million.

Turner Theological Seminary Elects New President/Dean –The Reverend Dr. John F. Green

Will Smith as Alcoholic Superhero in Need of AA and a New

Global Good Works Partnership

Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

A "Frank" Chat with a Captain of Industry, Frank Fountain

Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis Release: Two Men With the Blues CD

Renetta McCann Announces Sabbatical from Marketing Industry

I'm Through with White Girls (The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks)

American Airlines Executive Peggy Sterling Honored by Paul Quinn College

Calling All Student Poets!

Our House

Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

Prostate Health TV Targets Black Men Via the Internet

Mos Def Narrates True Tale of Abduction and Enslavement

"Why Black People Can't Lose Weight" Book Review

Stress Down and Lift Up!

Log on to Learn about Prostate Cancer