Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert to perform on ACM Awards and more A&E news
Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert and more to perform on ACM Awards
Ada native Blake Shelton, Checotah native Carrie Underwood and former Tishomingo resident Miranda Lambert will be among the performers on 56th Academy of Country Music Awards.
The Academy of Country Music, dick clark productions and CBS announced today the full superstar lineup for this year s ACM Awards, airing live from 7 to 10 p.m. April 18 on the CBS Television Network. The show will be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
Ryan Cass Fire in Little Africa artists in front of the Skyline Mansion, a now Black-owned venue originally built by a KKK leader who helped orchestrate the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. This photo is inspired by a group photo of original Black Wall Street business owners from before 1921.
In partnership with the Bob Dylan Center and Woody Guthrie Center, the project marks 100th anniversary of Tulsa s Black Wall Street massacre.
The 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the most significant yet long-suppressed chapters in Black history, will be commemorated on the May 28 album
Fire in Little Africa. Featuring original material by a collective of emerging Oklahoma hip-hop artists, the 21-track collection will be released through Black Forum/Motown Records in partnership with Tulsa’s Bob Dylan Center and Woody Guthrie Center.
Fire in Little Africa Set for May 28 Release Via Motown Records/Black Forum in Partnership with the Bob Dylan Center® and Woody Guthrie Center®
Album Brings Fresh And Important Perspective To The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre And Celebrates The City s Vibrant Hip Hop Scene
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LOS ANGELES, April 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Fire in Little Africa – a groundbreaking album of original material, written and recorded by a collective of Oklahoma hip hop artists to commemorate the 100
th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre – will be released on May 28 by Motown Records/Black Forum in partnership with Tulsa s Bob Dylan Center
Jania Hoover
Jania Hoover is a high school social studies teacher and department chair in Texas with 16 years of teaching experience in both public and private schools. She has designed curriculum for and currently teaches courses on U.S. history, African American history, and racial issues in American society.
Where is the joy in teaching Black history? What did you learn about Black history in school when you were growing up? No, really, think about it. What did you remember? Slavery? The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.? Rosa Parks? Don’t worry if you can’t recall much more than that. That’s kind of my point.
Elda Rotor at Viking Books bought world rights, at auction, to
Seizing Black Space by
Deirdre Mullane at Mullane Literary Associates. Viking said the book, subtitled
A New History of Race and Mobility in America, “chronicles African American struggles to make claims on the American landscape from vibrant slave communities and early free urban enclaves to thriving Black Wall Streets and the ghost towns of communities razed by fear and violence across four centuries of displacement and renewal.” Commander is the associate director and curator of the Schomburg Center’s Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery in New York City.