Academy Award winner Viola Davis has opened up about her pre-diabetes diagnosis, sharing that she comes from a family with a history of type 2 diabetes. “I’m one of 84 million American adults living with pre-diabetes and I’m sharing my…
At 94, the legendary actress and freedom fighter, Cicely Tyson, absolutely stuns on the cover of Time. Clad in an elegant Michael Couture dress and stylish Taffin earrings by James de Givenchy with hair and makeup by Armond Hambrick, Tyson…
Long before Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and the Internet, Hattie McDaniel knew what it meant to ‘clap back’ against her haters. Upon hearing backlash for film roles where she portrayed a servant during a time when servants were the only available…
These are the actors and actresses of African descent who have won the Academy Award for acting in American films. Hattie McDaniel, Best Supporting Actress – 1939, first African-American person to win an Academy Award; for her performance as Mammy…
