Stunning Portland theatre fans with her incredible voice and talent, Chicago-born actress Chavez Ravine stars with Lena Kaminsky in "Black Pearl Sings!" The play by Frank Higgins tells the story of a 1930s music scholar who strikes up a relationship with an incarcerated singer, Pearl, to mine her family history. The show is a musical tour de force for Ravine, who is performing with PCS for the first time.

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Ambitious Ghetto Orphan Tested in All Ways in Sobering Coming-of-Age Saga

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A handwritten sign that said "whites hate blacks" and was carried by one of more than 2,000 protesters in Johannesburg on Tuesday shows that a fierce national debate over a painting depicting the president's genitals is about more than art and the constitution.

Alien-Fighting Franchise Revived for Time-Travel Finale

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones' sequel "Men in Black 3" debuted as the No. 1 movie over Memorial Day weekend with $55 million domestically from Friday to Sunday.

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As a black girl on television, 90% of the women on television are not the same color as you. You're relating to the experience of people who are not the same color as you. So why wouldn't that work in then reverse for white people? I find it fascinating that we think that the world doesn't work that way.

Modern Dance Documentary Pays Tribute to Jacob's Pillow Festival

International Armada Defends Earth from Aliens in Epic Naval Showdown