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Queen 👑 @violadavis has arrived! Are you watching the #goldenglobes tonight?! Live tweet with us! #broadwayblack — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2qBEWqi

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Happy Birthday Ms. Tyson (@gingamebroadway, @bountifulbway, To Be Young Gifted & Black) #YouAreBroadwayBlack #CicelyTyson 2x Emmy Award winner and Academy Award nominee, Cicely Louise Tyson is a Tony Award winner for The Trip to Bountiful portraying Carrie Watts, for which she also won the Outer Critics Award, and Drama Desk Award for Best Actress in a Play. She previously received a Drama Desk Award in 1962 for her Off-Broadway performance in Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. In 1961, Tyson appeared in the original cast of French playwright Jean Genet's The Blacks, the longest running off-Broadway non-musical of the decade, running for 1,408 performances. Her last appearance on Broadway was fairly recent in 2015 opposite James Earl Jones in a revival of The Gin Game. She has consistently given back to the theatre and today we give back and honor her. THANK YOU, MS. TYSON! We ❤️ You! #broadwayblack — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2kHGIjf

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Happy Thanksgiving from our #BroadwayBlack to yours! ❤️✊🏾 (Photo: cast of Billy Porter’s While I Yet Live. October 2014) — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2mTynxg

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To Della & Earle, Thank you for your sacrifice and bold choices. You’ve inspired us all. ❤️❤️✊🏾 #BroadwayBlack — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2mNVXeY

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Tony & Emmy Nominated Actor Earle Hyman Passes Away at 91

It is with heavy hearts that we report television actor and theater great Earle Hyman passed away* November 16th, 2017, at the age of 91. Hyman was born October 11th, 1926 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, of African-American and Native American ancestry. Hyman’s parents, Zachariah Hyman (Tuscarora) and Maria Lilly Plummer (Haliwa-Saponi/Nottoway), moved their family to Brooklyn, New York, where…

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Stop the track. Let us state facts. #TheLionKing 2019 #broadwayblack — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2hv5d2f

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🚨🚨 GIVEAWAY 🚨🚨Go behind the scenes of a Broadway show w/ @eclipsedbway documentary! Send us your email via DM for a chance to win & attend! Must be following us! #broadwayblack #urbanworldfilmfestival #eclipsed — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2fH6zX9

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& it begins. tonight: intermingle @interfestnyc . ✊🏽❤️👍🏽👉🏽#broadwayblack approved — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2xWIgzb

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A stay. @iamcicelytyson #Emmys2017 #BroadwayBlack — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2fdJy11

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Congrats @sterlingkbrown! Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series! #ThisIsUs #Emmys2017 #emmyawards #BroadwayBlack #FatherComesHome #suzanloriparks — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2wnQrUw

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When you've been robbed but you look DAMN GOOD! 🤷🏽‍♂️ @titussburgess #Emmys2017 #emmyawards #BroadwayBlack — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2x7aMgq

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If this isn't love... ❤️❤️😍#emmyawards @violadavis #broadwayblack — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2fsTpwu

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Ain't that it?! Thank you, @natblacktheatre. ✊🏽❤️ #broadwayblack — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2y8eUKf

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#TBT 1959 Lena Horne sitting for a portrait painted by Geoffrey Holder #broadwayblack • #backstory: "Sitting star. New York: With a far away look on her face, Lena Horne, star of the Broadway musical 'Jamaica,' sits for her portrait in New York City. Painting her is Geoffrey Holder, who is preparing a one-man show of impressionistic portraits of stars to be displayed at the Barone Galleries in Manhattan later in the month. 2/13/59." — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2gK5xt5