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Front Row Classics welcomes Kevin John Goff to the podcast. Kevin is the great-grand-nephew of Hattie McDaniel and Executive Director of the Hattie McDaniel Estate. Brandon and Kevin discusses ...
Kansas City is going to be home to the Black Movie Hall of Fame, a first-of its-kind place highlighting and honoring the ...
Before Hattie McDaniel won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she made her home in Colorado.
Angela Lansbury became known for her roles in the ‘90s as an older woman, like Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast and Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote. Long before she was the sweet older woman ...
How the Academy and Hattie McDaniel's family restored her Oscar legacy Director and President of the Academy Museum Jacqueline Stewart and McDaniel's great-grandnephew Kevin John Goff take EW ...
On This Day in Black History: Hattie McDaniel Becomes 1st-Ever Black Oscar Winner As Black History Month 2024 officially comes to a close, there's still a momentous occasion to celebrate before we ...
Hattie McDaniel was a force in the entertainment industry and paved the way for many actresses today. In The Queen of Sugar Hill, author ReShonda Tate tells the story of the first Black person ...
By Ebenezer Nkunda, Howard University News Service Hattie McDaniel’s Academy Award has returned to its forever home at Howard University. McDaniel became the first Black actor to win an Academy ...
Hattie McDaniel's Oscar went missing from Howard University decades ago. Howard celebrated McDaniel's legacy Sunday as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences replaced the missing plaque.