Bailey was born in Newport News, Va. in 1917. In the 1930s, she moved to North Philadelphia’s 1946 N. 23rd Street — a blue ...

Television’s abysmal track record in featuring African-American actors and actresses became painfully clear to the actress on the very first day of production on “Julia” in 1968 when the ...

Playbill courtesy of British Library. The African American actor Ira Aldridge was born in New York City and came to Britain as a teenager to pursue a career on the stage. Zoë Wilcox He first ...

Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 will open at the DIA on February 4, exploring work by African American actors and directors in early Hollywood. It includes nearly 200 historical film posters ...