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By Shatondra Caldwell Black Nativity gives a 21st century twist on the off-Broadway play by celebrated poet Langston Hughes. In Black Nativity, Hughes celebrates what happened in Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago with an African American flavor. Not only telling the story of baby Jesus, but the beauty of gospel music and the genius of […]

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Film Review by The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) On the day after Christmas in 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake, the third largest ever measured on the Richter scale, triggered a mammoth tsunami in the Indian Ocean which cost a quarter million people their lives. Thanks to the ubiquity of surveillance and cell phone […]