She created a program to honor Black artistic success in the 1960s. But she spent decades trying to get its organizers to ...

Kimberly Akimbo,' David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori's 2023 Tony-winning musical, has its L.A. premiere at the Hollywood ...

Ms. Vaz was one of only a few Black stuntwomen working in Hollywood at the time, and she was part of a generation of Black ...

Toni Olabanji, also known as TSTIZZ, has been crowned the winner of the Young Leader Award sponsored by Rocksteady at the star-studded Youth Music Awards 2024 in association with Hal Leonard Europe, ...

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter may have not been in attendance at this year's People's Choice Country Awards, but her acclaimed project "Cowboy Carter" and its collaborators were recognized throughout ...

Actress-activist Toni Vaz broke barriers in entertainment and ... she prompted the founding of the NAACP Image Awards to provide a marquee awards ceremony for people of color in entertainment — and ...

Toni Vaz, an actor and activist who created the NAACP Image Awards, died on Oct. 4 in Woodland Hills, Calif. She was 101. Vaz’s parents immigrated to the U.S. from Barbados and she was one of four ...