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Kansas City Womens Chorus at the Folly Theatre presents 'UNSUNG' April 5, 2019 @ 8 pm, & April 6, 2019 @ 2:30pm. Featuring songs that celebrate the 'UNSUNG' women of history.

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) will open its 2018-2019 season with a concert honoring Phenomenal Women presented by Carnegie Hall in Zankel Hall on Friday, November 2, 2018 at 7:30pm. The performance, conducted by ACO Music Director George Manahan, will feature the world premiere of Valerie Coleman's Phenomenal Women performed by the Imani Winds with ACO; as well as the world premiere of Alex Temple's Three Principles of Noir with singer Meaghan Burke, director Amber Treadway, and costumes by Storm Garner. Grammy and Grawemeyer Award-winning composer Joan Tower's Chamber Dance from 2006, which treats the orchestra as a chamber ensemble, completes the program.

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) will open its 2018-2019 season with a concert honoring Phenomenal Women presented by Carnegie Hall in Zankel Hall on Friday, November 2, 2018 at 7:30pm. The performance, conducted by ACO Music Director George Manahan, will feature the world premiere of Valerie Coleman's Phenomenal Women performed by the Imani Winds with ACO; as well as the world premiere of Alex Temple's Three Principles of Noir with singer Meaghan Burke, director Amber Treadway, and costumes by Storm Garner. Grammy and Grawemeyer Award-winning composer Joan Tower's Chamber Dance from 2006, which treats the orchestra as a chamber ensemble, completes the program.

The Staten Island Children's Museum will celebrate Black History Month in February with a full slate of programming highlighting the extraordinary accomplishments of people from the African diaspora, including ground-breaking scientists, cutting-edge fashion designers, and fierce record-setting athletes.

Free Movie Summer is back at The Lyric Theatre in Stuart, proudly sponsored by Humana and MetCare. Tickets are limited to 4 per person and subject to availability.  Tickets are ONLY available at the Box Office. Scroll down for a look at the lineup!

Free Movie Summer is back at The Lyric Theatre in Stuart, proudly sponsored by Humana and MetCare. Tickets are limited to 4 per person and subject to availability.  Tickets are ONLY available at the Box Office. Scroll down for a look at the lineup!

Hispanicize Media Group and Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. (OTCQX: SBSAA), (SBS), a leading Hispanic media company, and its digital streaming and entertainment service, LaMusica, are partnering with Colombian superstar Juanes for a special advance screening and preview concert for his upcoming visual album 'Mis Planes Son Amarte'.

Alex Sensation, the most influential DJ and radio personality in Spanish-language radio in the United States, and Carolina Santamarina, Senior Vice President of Portafolio of Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. (SBS) (OTCQX: SBSAA), today were named co-chairs of the national advisory board of Hispanicize 2017.

Hispanicize Media Group and Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc., a leading Hispanic media company, and its digital streaming and entertainment service, LaMusica, are partnering with Colombian superstar Juanes for a special advance screening and preview concert for his upcoming visual album 'Mis Planes Son Amarte'.

Tonight, BroadwayWorld's Senior TV and Film Critic, Matt Tamanini will be live blogging the 89th Academy Awards, so join him as ceremony gets underway at 8:30 p.m. EST. With movie-musical LA LA LAND and stage-to-screen adaptation FENCES nominated for Best Picture and playwrights Kenneth Lonergan, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Robert Schenkkan with works nominated in the category as well, the ceremony is shaping up to be quite theatrical. 

Margot Lee Shetterly's book, HIDDEN FIGURES, has also been nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards to be presented Sunday, Feb. 26.  The Star Tribune interviewed Shetterly in advance of her sold-out upcoming talk at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute. 

March is Women's History Month and on March 17-19, 2017 Seattle Women's Chorus (SWC) goes global in A Woman's World. Around the world, women are the unsung heroes of ingenuity, creativity, and social justice. New Artistic Director Paul Caldwell introduces Seattle to uplifting stories of trailblazing women who have shattered glass ceilings and transformed our world.

Essex Books presents Shelf Awareness for Readers examines historical figures for today's edition.

PepsiCo and 21st Century Fox, in partnership with the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS), are proud to announce the two grand prize winners from 'The Search for Hidden Figures' scholarship contest.

20th Century Fox has released three new character posters for HIDDEN FIGURES to celebrate the film's wide release this Friday!

HIDDEN FIGURES screens in select cities and theaters this Christmas, including Houston's Edwards Greenway Grand Palace Stadium 24 & RPX. See the trailer and the photos from the film inside!

40 Acres: The Promise of a Black Pastoral Throughout the twentieth century, the cry for 40 Acres was a verdant symbol for a self-reliant Black nation.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ NASA will host a panel discussion and reading from the book Hidden Figures, now a major motion picture, with about 350 students of Washington schools at 10 a.m. EST Wednesday, Dec. 14, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington. The event will air live on NASA Television and stream on the agency's website.

Last we saw our heroes, they were just landing back in 2016 after returning from 1754's French and Indian War. Things weren't going so well for the gang during their last expedition: they were pretty darn mad at each other, Flynn was still very much at large, and to make matters worse, they were stranded in the middle of one of the worst time periods of American history.