by October Gallery
I’m a longtime Prince fan. I would listen to his raunchy songs with the sound turned down low so my parents couldn’t hear, because even before I understood a lot…
Standing with friends outside her storefront on Georgia Avenue in Washington, D.C., Karin Sellers is all smiles. It’s been over a month since the D.C. native opened the first ice…
Wendell Pierce is having a very good year. He is in two festival-prize-winning movies (“Clemency” and “Burning Cane”) and an Amazon television series (“Jack Ryan”). He helped save a radio…
Once you’ve been bitten by the travel bug, it’s hard to stop going. You’ll find yourself constantly searching for inspiration that will lead you to your next life-changing adventure. We…
Robert Chelsea turned down the first face he was offered. It was a fine face, one that could have taken him off the transplant waiting list after just a couple…
Mere weeks after becoming the most decorated gymnast in all of history ever—male or female—Simone Biles was not content to lie low and revel in her success. Instead she stopped…
I had a 30-minute ride to the train station. I nestled into my seat, opened my phone, and saw that Representative Elijah Cummings had passed away. I gasped and covered…
SEATTLE — A new exhibit chronicling iconic black women debuts Friday at the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle. Seattle artist Hiawatha D. calls his new exhibit ‘Iconic Black Women:…
Celeste Beatty, owner of the Harlem Brewing Company, is the first Black female brewery owner in the United States, Insider reports. Beatty founded Harlem Brewing in 2000, making her first…
In 1988, the Chicago Tribune described actress Vonetta McGee as a heroine from a “bygone era” of film. This was a fair statement—in the previous decade, McGee scored leading roles…