Check out this preview of the documentary Prom Night In Mississippi – a story stemming from an offer from an Academy Award winning actor, that made a historic impact at a high school in the southern state.
In 1997, Morgan Freeman offered to pay for the senior prom at Charleston High School under one condition: the prom had to be racially integrated. After that offer was ignored, Freeman returned eleven years later and the school board accepted. Charleston High School had its first-ever integrated prom in 2008 (until then, blacks and whites had separate proms).
The documentary follows students, teachers, and parents as they lead up to the big day – which, doesn’t come without much opposition in a town where deep rooted racism is still planted. Prom Night in Mississippi premieres @ 9PM ET/PT on Monday, July 20th on HBO.
Michelle Williams, currently playing Roxy in Chicago on the West End Stage, performs at G-A-Y over the weekend in London, England.
Michelle will be playing Roxie Hart at the Cambridge Theatre in London during a limited six-week engagement running through August 23.
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Marlon Wayans snaps the paps with his iPhone as he walks off his lunch along Sydney’s Bondi Beach in Australia. The actor had dined with other members of the cast and crew from the movie “G.I. Joe; The Rise of the Cobra”, which has it’s world premiere in Australia later on this week.
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Basketball player Kenyon Martin and his girlfriend rapstress Trina are pictured in a recent issue of Urban Ink Magazine. The mag features minorities who are tatted up. Peep the photos.
The couple has been official since last year and were even involved in a minor car accident together when they were down in Belize for a charity event last July. Kenyon has three children from past relationships.
( Photos: URBAN INK MAGAZINE )
