The Cosby Show

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
May 3 2012

Organizations will host fundraiser for reproductive cancer

The Varnette P. Honeywood Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides artistic scholarships and art supplies to high school and college students, as well as hosts various art workshops. The foundation also provides funding for reproductive cancer research and contributes to health awareness in the community.

As an artist whose work was used in episodes of “The Cosby Show,” “Amen,” “227,” various other television shows and movies, Honeywood had a major impact on the appreciation of Black art. 

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Jun 9 2011

Beloved member of the Cosby cast is laid to rest

Clarice Taylor, best known as Anna Huxtable, the mother of Dr. Cliff Huxtable’s (Bill Cosby), on “The Cosby Show,” died in Englewood, N.J., of congestive heart failure. She was 93. Taylor was born on Sept. 20, 1917, in rural Virginia and raised in Harlem.

C. Alexander Haywood   |   OW Staff Writer
Mar 31 2011

Theater icon tells her own story, in her own words.

Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad is not to be confused with your average stage performer.

She’s a director now, and recently made her anticipated West Coast directorial debut while at the helm of the Ebony Repertory Theatre’s (ERT) spring production of Lorriane’s Hansberry classic drama, “A Raisin in the Sun.”

The play is on stage now through April 17, and each performance can be seen at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center.

Jan 31 2011

Began career on "The Cosby Show"

HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Adam Sandler will receive the 2,431st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Tuesday, honoring a career which has seen his films gross more than $3 billion worldwide.

Henry Winkler, who co-starred with Winkler in the 1998 football comedy "The Waterboy,'' will join Sandler is speaking in the 11:30 a.m. ceremony in front of the W Hollywood Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”