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23/12/2023

Take a peek at this NEW poster for THE COLOR PURPLE 🎶 Experience the powerful story on the big screen January 26.

22/12/2023

Thrilled to announce that I'll be performing the National Anthem at the in Houston – live on on January 8! Warner Bros. Pictures The Color Purple

Link here: https://collegefootballplayoff.com/news/2023/12/21/24-game-day-entertainment.aspx

21/12/2023

It's Day 9 of the BBN Favorite Things Giveaway! Patricia Ferguson, founder of Equity Films is giving away TWO tickets to the Red Carpet Gala for the 2024 Pecan Pickling Short Film Festival in Windsor, NC!

These tickets are valued at $150!😱

Visit https://www.equity-films.org to learn more about the organization! Also, follow Equity Films on Facebook.

To earn an entry, leave your answer on this original thread.

The winner will be announced at 8pm.
Members are playing for fun! 🙂

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16/12/2023

Congrats to North Carolina's own Fantasia Barrino on being nominated for Best Performance by a Female (Musical or Comedy) at the 81st Golden Globes. Barrino plays the role of Celie in the musical film adaptation of 'The Color Purple,' set to be released on Christmas Day.

Barrino, who grew up in High Point and currently lives in Charlotte, is the cousin of Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey and Joel "JoJo" Hailey of Jodeci. She of course won 'American Idol' in 2004 and went on to sell millions of records, winning a Grammy in 2011.

Barrino portrayed Celie in the Broadway musical, 'The Color Purple' from 2007-08, and in the film adaptation produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, and Quincy Jones, she stars alongside Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, H.E.R., and Halle Bailey.

The Golden Globes will air on January 7, and Barrino is also a favorite to be nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars, which will be announced on January 23. 🎄🎞️✨

16/12/2023

Your Sofias with Danielle Brooks 💜💜💜 Thank you for having us on CBS Mornings to talk all things The Color Purple. The movie is in theaters starting December 25.

16/12/2023

Lupita Nyong'o, the executive producer of and laureate of the Academy Award for Best Actress, has been appointed to serve as the President of the International Jury of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival ✨

15/12/2023

We had a blast ringing in this holiday season playing at ’s holiday party. She truly is the hostess with the MOSTEST - thanks for blessing us by singing along! We also got to work with her on the via our newest endeavor, OQ Collective. For more on this and other news, use the link in our bio to sign up for our mailing list!

03/12/2023

Historical records show Virginia Beach's Station 12 is believed to be one of the first fire stations in the country that was owned and operated entirely by African Americans.
Upon returning from World War II In the summer of 1948, more than a dozen men signed up to become the first firefighters of the Station 12 Seatack Volunteer Fire Department, located in the historic Seatack community, a once-thriving African American community just a few miles west from the city's Oceanfront. It was the first uniquely African-American fire department to exist in the United States; no other group like it has existed since its disbandment in 1963. Today, the fire department is known as Fire Station 12 and is active from its location on Birdneck Road in Virginia Beach.
The idea was for Seatack to become an entirely self-sufficient community, and not have to rely on services and help from other areas.
“African Americans decided they needed a fire station of their own. They would have to pay $50 of their own to get a white fire station to come and put out the fire," local historian Edna Hawkins-Hendrix told 13News Now.
According to historical records, a $50 fee was applied for fires extinguished by the nearby Virginia Beach fire station outside the Beach Borough. The Seatack Volunteer Firefighters trained to become a fundamental community resource.
In the beginning, the station was entirely staffed and controlled by African American men, and the surrounding Seatack community raised the funds for the station's first fire truck, a used 1924 Holabird with a 700-gallon water tank purchased for $2,500 from the Oceana Volunteer Fire Department.
“Norfolk had a fire station manned by African Americans. But the city owned it. The city owned that particular fire station," Hawkins-Hendrix explained. "The one in Princess Anne County was owned by the community, and they supported that fire station."
By the 1960s, the station had grown to dozens of firefighters, and the names of the original 19 firefighters still shine on a plaque outside the station's relocated base on South Birdneck Road.
The original location of Station 12 is where the Seatack Community Rec Center now stands. It’s named after Joseph Grimstead, one of the original firefighters who dedicated the land to the city.
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19/11/2023

Upon her release from L. Richardson Memorial Hospital’s maternity ward in Greensboro, North Carolina, my grandmother, Ann Wilson Scales, walked a few short steps to her mother’s home with a small baby in hand. She had just given birth to my mother, La Tanya Wilson Sanford, in the city’s Black ...