Ethel Waters News

The works of Langston Hughes will come to life tonight and Friday on the Emma Kelly Theater stage, along with the famed poet and author himself in the form of a Georgia Southern graduate.

Turner Classic Movies is one of my favorite cable networks and today they'll be showing several films that feature many talented African American actors in honor of Martin Luther King Day.

Check your local listings ; also a lot of these films are shown throughout the month -- some are in a semi-permanent rotation -- so you may want to look at previous DVD alerts for December and January.

Antonio Salemme, a noted artist whose nude sculpture of actor Paul Robeson shocked the 1930s elite, lived and worked in Williams Township for a third of his life.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2009 with 61 to follow. This is Halloween.

Harlem Speaks: Featuring Sandra Reeves-Phillips, Vocalist, Thursday, October 8th, 6:30 - " 8:30 pm @ the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, 104 East 126th Street, Suite 2C Songstress and dramatic actress Sandra Reaves-Phillips is a modern day griot, a keeper of the musical traditions of her artistic ancestors, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, ...