John Hope News

Join Claudia Rankine, Anna Deavere Smith, Homi Bhabha, Saidiya Hartman, and others for a series of conversations and performances exploring public and private discourse at the Armory's Antagonisms: A Gathering on June 1.

Nashville's earliest music ambassadors, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, celebrated the release a limited-edition commemorative book, Heritage & Honor: 150 Year Story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, with an unveiling ceremony at Fisk University on Wednesday.

The HISTORY® Channel will also join the Russell Westbrook Why Not? Foundation, Endeavor, RedFlight Innovation and Values Partnerships to create an educational and experiential campaign focused on the history and legacy of Tulsa’s Black Wall street.

Silk Road Rising has announced Black Teen Lives Matter, written by students in Silk Road Rising's Empathic Playwriting Intensive Course (EPIC) program, and directed by Jarrett King. The video performance will be screened twice, once on Saturday, November 14 at 2:00PM CST and again on Monday, November 16, 2020 at 7:00PM CST.

The Frist Art Museum and Fisk University Galleries present Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar, concurrent presentations of sculptures, prints, installations, and video by the multidisciplinary and multimedia artist and musician, on view at the Frist from February 20 through May 31, 2020, and at Fisk from February 20 through September 20, 2020.

At the June 17 Annual Meeting, Trinity Repertory Company's Board of Trustees elected seven new trustees to three-year terms: Judhajit De, Sergio M. Gonzalez, Sean Holley, James Hurley, Lawrence J. La Sala, Sara Shea McConnell, and Julia Ann Slom. Reelected for another term were: Jonathan Duffy, Brian McGuirk, Kibbe Reilly, Kathryn Sabatini, and Arthur Solomon.

NAACP National Board of Directors Chairman Leon W. Russell announced the Association is soliciting nominations for the 104th Spingarn Award.  All nominations for the 104th Spingarn Medal must be submitted, in writing, on or before December 31, 2018.  To be accepted, the postmark date on the envelope must be no later than December 31, 2018.

11:11 Presents and the Casper Events Center are pleased to announce Skillet Unleashed Tour 2017 on Sunday, September 3rd at 7:30 pm. All ages welcome. All seats are general admission. Tickets on sale beginning at 11:30 am on Friday, June 16th.

The innovative educational program that launched in 2016 at HAMILTON on Broadway, and has subsequently debuted in Chicago and San Francisco, will make history on April 26, 2017 when more than 5,000 students and teachers from Title 1 schools attend matinee performances of the musical at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway, The PrivateBank Theatre in Chicago and at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco.

A super-majority of people here in the United States and around the world have one thing in common: They never got what I call 'The Memo.' They were never told how this world actually works. How do you prosper? How do you excel? At a more defensive and basic level, how do you protect yourself from societal injustices and a lack of fair play in the twenty-first century? These are questions I address directly in my book. I have dedicated this book, and the entire HOPE Global Forum to this super-majority: 'the invisible class.' -John Hope Bryant

Playwright/actor John Copeland's latest theatrical project ANITA BRYANT'S PLAYBOY INTERVIEW recounts a specific incident in the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction saga of the former Miss Oklahoma and runner-up to Miss America whose 'Save Our Children' campaign fought to repeal gay rights in Dale County, Florida in 1977. 

Today, the National Civil Rights Museum announced recipients of The Freedom Award, the museum's signature event that honors outstanding individuals for their significant contributions to civil and human rights. This year's honorees are Benjamin Crump, civil rights attorney; Tawakkol Karman, Yemeni human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; The Honorable Damon Jerome Keith, longest serving judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Court; Soledad O'Brien, journalist and executive producer; and Bryan Stevenson, attorney and social justice activist.

?At the 20th annual Pell Awards, Trinity Repertory Company will honor local artists Len Cabral and Charlene Carpenzano with Rhode Island Pell Awards for Excellence in the Arts alongside previously announced honorees The Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis, Laurie Eustis and Elizabeth Chace. The awards ceremony and celebration will be held at Ochre Court on the Salve Regina University Campus in Newport, RI on May 23, 2016. Tickets and sponsorships are now available at www.trinityrep.com.

The Studio@620 has announced this year's Studio Honors will be held tonight, November 1st at 6:20 PM for the first time at the historic Coliseum in St. Petersburg.

ATLANTA, Oct. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Today, Operation HOPE a global financial empowerment nonprofit reported on the success of the bestselling book and organization blueprint, How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class (Berrett-Kohler). The book is authored by, John Hope Bryant, the founder, chairman and CEO of the nonprofit and over the last 143 days, the book has become a global phenomenon, selling the international publishing rights to be printed in four languages and remaining in the top 100 lists for Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, iBooks and in the top 10 for four months on 800 CEO Read, in the categories of poverty and social policy.

The Studio@620 has announced this year's Studio Honors will be held on Saturday, November 1st at 6:20 PM for the first time at the historic Coliseum in St. Petersburg.

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LOS ANGELES, June 2, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Berrett-Kohler will release its second book by John Hope Bryant, entitled How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class on June 2, 2014. The book will be available in Barnes&Noblebookstores, and online at Amazon.com,BAM!, IndieBound,iTunes.

Denise Devin deftly directs a fast-paced intermission-less HAMLET with authority and skill at Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre; a risk that pays off handsomely as the production explores one man's psychological descent into evil.

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