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Uncovering Knoxville’s Black history: Landmarks of resilience and change
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Black history in Knoxville is woven into buildings, streets, and neighborhoods. It is not limited to museums or textbooks. At the Bijou Theatre, built in 1909, segregation ...
The Phoenix theater troupe is staging "The African Company Presents Richard III," the true story of Black actors determined to claim their space.
Founded in 1921, the Douglass Theatre celebrates 105 years of Black history, community and creativity in Downtown Macon. Here ...
Just 60 some years ago, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Harvey B. Gantt wouldn’t have been allowed through the doors of a segregated Carolina Theatre. But on Thursday, Jackson — the first Black woman ...
The theater’s revival is also central to a broader effort to restore a once‑thriving stretch of Mobile known as “The Avenue,” ...
At the corner of Eighth Street and Central Avenue, long before high-rises, restaurants and boutiques reshaped the Rosemary District, a modest yellow stucco building stood as one of the few safe havens ...
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