• "The Woman in Black" earned a lackluster "B-" CinemaScore grade, but, like "Chronicle, " the film has already proved itself a major success.

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  • For a certain target audience, of course, the chief selling point of "The Woman in Black" is the appearance of Radcliffe in his first adult, big-screen outing of the post-"Harry Potter" era.

    CNN: Review: 'The Woman in Black'

  • He proved his post-Harry Potter mettle in the hit horror The Woman in Black, but now Daniel Radcliffe has moved even further away from the role that made him famous - playing poet Allen Ginsberg in the low-budget, independent thriller, Kill Your Darlings.

    BBC: Daniel Radcliffe on playing Allen Ginsberg

  • Tied up with the killing, and those that follow, is the disappearance a year later of Wesley's pregnant sister, Junie, the only black woman in her law class at Harvard, whose childhood ambition is to become the first black person and the first woman to be elected president of the United States.

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  • First elected in 1998, the five-term congresswoman was the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and served as chairwoman of the House Ethics Committee.

    NPR: Waters, Clyburn Pay Tribute To Tubbs Jones

  • As the elected District Attorney for the Delta County where Till was killed, Chiles faces questions from her fellow prosecutors at their state meeting, where she's the only black woman in a sea of white faces.

    NPR: Mississippi Officials Weigh New Emmett Till Probe

  • In March, McKinney, the first black woman ever elected to Congress from Georgia when she won in 1992, implied in a radio interview that members of the Bush administration knew about the September 11 attacks beforehand.

    CNN: Barr, McKinney lose in Georgia primaries

  • Little did they know that come April 20, 2012, there would be all kinds of wild changes in the world, like a manned spaceship to the moon, a black man in the White House and a woman maybe even being considered for membership at Augusta National.

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  • Liuzzo had to be aware of the dangers of a white woman being seen in a car with a black man at the time, says David Truskoff, one of the marchers who met Liuzzo in Selma.

    CNN: The voting rights martyr who divided America

  • He says the man pointed to a woman in a black Muslim headscarf and identified her as his wife.

    NPR: For Bombing Suspects, Question May Be Who Led Whom

  • Last year she switched her sporting nationality, giving up competing for Kenya to swim for the better-resourced Team GB, and in doing so she became the first black woman to swim for the British team.

    BBC: Sacrifices of teenage Olympic hopeful Ajulu-Bushell

  • Derrick Simmons, his grandmother's tales of life as a black woman in the Delta region under Jim Crow are indelibly etched in his political consciousness.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • "A little while ago, Katie, I called my mom, a black woman born in the segregated South she's 76 years old she was born at a time in this country when it would have been dangerous for her to look a white woman in the eye, " Pitts said, a bit choked up.

    NPR: Media Report Election With Restraint �� And A Wink

  • Beverly Johnson, the first African-American woman to grace the cover of Vogue, appears in the film, as does another black beauty ("one-eighth African-American, " she clarifies in "About Face"): Cleveland, who spoke poignantly about being attacked in the racist South during her early days modeling with the Ebony Fashion Fair.

    CNN: 'Supermodels' film reveals sometimes ugly side of beauty

  • They asked 121 psychology students who had volunteered for the experiment to watch a silent video of a woman being interviewed that had random words appearing in bold black letters every ten seconds along the perimeter of the video.

    ECONOMIST: Do not think on an empty stomach

  • She's also the first black woman to become a major influence in the world of entertainment, and she rightfully receives loads of praise for it.

    CNN: Review: 'Beloved' is loud Oprah vehicle to Oscar

  • Having taken my turn at the faucet, I proceeded to the prayer area and knelt on the silk carpet, behind an extremely thin young woman in a black dress and head scarf.

    NEWYORKER: The Sanctuary

  • It's a typically muggy summer night in the French Quarter, and a handful of tourists are gathered on the sidewalk in front of a large woman, decked out all in black.

    NPR: New Orleans Businesses Ready for Tourists' Return

  • Mary Jane Anderson, a black woman who lived in an alley house behind the theatre, watched Booth lead his horse up the alley, walk past her front door, and call Ned Spangler.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Manhunt'

  • Mr. ALEXANDER: I'd like this book to really give black women something to celebrate themselves in which they should walk away with lot of pride about the diversity of their beauty and the diversity of their hair as something that--I think when a black woman comes into the world, hair is something that is discussed in her life very early on.

    NPR: 'Queens': Black Women, Fabulous Hair

  • She first came across the stereotypes in crime reporting when she heard about a 24-year-old black woman, Tamika Huston, who went missing in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 2004.

    BBC: Magazine

  • Makeba was the first black African woman to win a Grammy Award, which she shared with Harry Belafonte in 1965.

    BBC: Mandela mourns icon Miriam Makeba

  • One of those he threw off was a veteran black politician, a woman who helped him get started in politics in the first place.

    ECONOMIST: Barack Obama

  • Yet at the center of the group was a fragile-looking, diminutive woman in a crisp white shalwar kameez, a neat black jacket, and heavy tortoiseshell spectacles, named Asma Jilani Jahangir.

    NEWYORKER: Days of Rage

  • Some people have a political investment in refusing to see progress in saying the American people will never vote for someone who is black, a woman, Asian, Hispanic or whose name ends with a vowel.

    NPR: The Changing Complexion of American Politics

  • Dressed in a black burqa from head to toe and uttering death threat after death threat, the woman -- a wife and mother -- says she is defending her religion and her prophet if she manages to kill Vilks.

    CNN: Artist defiantly draws Prophet Mohammed

  • Conversely, works like Orazio Mochi's finely modeled statuette of a "Black Court Jester" (c. 1600-10) and a Flemish or French statuette of a "Black Woman at her Bath" (1580s) reveal the aesthetic delight European sculptors took in the use of bronze with various patinations as a natural medium to represent the variety of African skin tones.

    WSJ: Less Familiar Faces | Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe | Princeton University Art Museum | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer

  • And the brutalized body of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy killed in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman, was shown at the insistence of his mother at his funeral, galvanizing the civil rights movement, Shapiro said.

    CNN: Neda: Latest iconic image to inspire

  • Sipping lemon-ginger tea on the cushions of our house's rooftop pavilion, I watch the first light spangle the leaves of the poplars along the village's irrigation stream, see lambs herded into a small willow-walled corral, a woman in a black robe and orange head scarf testing her lower back after filling her buckets.

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