Movies
ANYONE WHO HAS seen the film “Amazing Grace” will appreciate the parallels between the career of William Wilberforce, the politician who led the campaign against the slave trade, and that of outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
June 4, 2007
Music
After making history as the first black woman to headline Coachella, Beyoncé has expanded the scholarship program she launched last year with new donations to four traditionally black universities.
April 16, 2018
California
Five Scholarship Semifinalists Named
Oct. 5, 1996
Bishop Benjamin Jerome Crouch, a longtime Pacoima resident who founded the community’s Christ Memorial Church of God in Christ and father of Grammy award-winning gospel singers Andrae and Sandra Crouch, has died at his home.
Dec. 23, 1993
Four Students Win Scholarships
April 26, 1997
World & Nation
Christian activist William Wilberforce championed abolition in Britain.
Feb. 21, 2007
A 4K color restoration of the 1955 heist caper “The Ladykillers,” starring Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers, brings the classic Ealing comedy back to theaters.
July 2, 2021
The inspiring ‘Amazing Grace’ tells the story of William Wilberforce, who worked passionately to abolish slavery in Britain.
Feb. 23, 2007
Wilberforce, a black and white tomcat who was a companion to four British prime ministers after straying onto Downing Street in 1973, died in his sleep Thursday at the age of 15.
May 20, 1988
Re “The faith to end slavery,” Opinion, Feb. 21 Joseph Loconte rightly applauds the moral scruples of William Wilberforce, who worked to outlaw the slave trade in Britain.
Feb. 27, 2007