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‘True Stories’: 35 Facts About These Historical Figures That Shed Light On The Past

The past is broader, more nuanced, and much more complex than it first appears. Even if you think you know everything there is to know about a historical figure or event, you might have some knowledge gaps you’re not aware of. The ‘True Stories’ Facebook page aims to give you…

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Harold Offeh: Mmm Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet review – desire, despondency and disco divas

Offeh’s show blares and jostles with life as he mimics Mammy, listens to self-help advice and gets naked for Grace Jones’s anatomically impossible Island Life pose

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Halle Berry says Oscars not ‘designed’ for Black women: ‘We have to stop coveting that’

Monster’s Ball star is only Black woman to win best actress Oscar in 97-year-old history of Academy Awards

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Cynthia Erivo pays tribute to Oz with Oscars manicure

Cynthia Erivo wore a "proper ode to Oz" in an elaborate manicure at the Oscars on Sunday (02.03.25).

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Oscar records: Most wins and longest speeches in history

The longest speech ran on for roughly five minutes

Evening Standard

32 beautiful red carpet dresses that ooze old Hollywood glamour

The red carpet and old Hollywood glamour go hand in hand, so there's no shortage of memorable looks...

Woman & Home

‘Remember who our ancestors intended you to be’: Angela Bassett and Mel Brooks awarded honorary Oscars at Governors awards

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever star Bassett and The Producers legend Brooks among those receiving honorary gongs from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science

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Mel Brooks Earns Honorary Oscar At 97

A 97-year-old Mel Brooks accepted a lifetime achievement Oscar in Hollywood on Tuesday, more than half a century after he won his only Academy Award with "The Producers."

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Up First briefing: Effects of a shutdown; health workers may strike; Maui conspiracies

What will stay open if the government shuts down? Kaiser Permanente's health care workers near a nationwide walkout. How conspiracy theories spread in the wake of wildfires in Hawaii.

WEKU

The Academy is replacing Hattie McDaniel's Oscar that has been missing for 50 years

McDaniel, the first Black person to win an Academy Award, donated her Oscar to Howard University before her death. But the plaque mysteriously went missing, likely sometime around the 1960s or 1970s.

WEKU

Hattie McDaniel’s missing Gone with the Wind Oscar is finally being replaced

Original Academy Award trophy is believed to have gone missing in the late 1960s

The Independent UK

Film academy gifts a replacement of Hattie McDaniel's historic Oscar to Howard University

Hattie McDaniel’s best supporting actress Oscar in 1939 for “Gone With the Wind” is one of the most important moments in Academy Award history

The Independent UK

The 10 weirdest film premieres – ranked!

With the actors’ strike shutting down the red carpet, we look at the strangest ways films – and their stars – have launched themselves on to the unsuspecting public

The Guardian - UK

Pssst! Wanna buy an Oscar? The mysterious case of the missing Academy Awards

An Oscar can only, officially, be sold for $1 – but that hasn’t stopped a small but lucrative black market. Where are all those that have disappeared?

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Yes, #OscarsSoWhite – but there are still plenty of reasons to celebrate contemporary Black film

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for its 95th Oscars and three of the most celebrated films of the season – “The Woman King,” “Till” and “Saint Omer” – received no nominations, a familiar refrain of frustration rang forth.

Evening Standard

Black Oscar winners over the years: the numbers. Just how bad is it in Hollywood?

There have been 54 black Oscar wins in 96 years

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Boulevard of Bold Dreams’ brilliantly depicts Hattie McDaniel’s dilemma on Oscar night

In play’s world premiere at TimeLine Theatre, skillful star Gabrielle Lott-Rogers embodies the grace and dignity that allowed ‘Gone With the Wind’ actor to rise above constant disrespect.

The Independent UK

‘Oscar will never leave my house again’: 12 Oscar winners whose awards were stolen, destroyed or vanished

From the stolen Academy Award recovered from an airport bin to the time Matt Damon’s Oscar washed away in a flood, Adam White recalls the gold-plated vanishing acts that stars would love to forget

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Humboldt Park got rid of Riot Fest, so why not Douglass Park?

We love music and are not against music festivals, but they should never have been put in Douglass Park.

The Independent UK

‘Oscar will never leave my house again’: 12 Oscar winners whose awards were stolen, destroyed or simply vanished

From the stolen Academy Award recovered from an airport bin to the time Matt Damon’s Oscar washed away in a flood, Adam White recalls the gold-plated vanishing acts that stars would love to forget

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