Basketball legend Kobe Bryant won an Oscar for his animated short film Dear Basketball, which he wrote and narrated. He became the first professional athlete to win an Oscar. "As basketball players, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Academy Awards speeches are supposed to be quick, but the ones people remember do more than say thanks. For Black winners, the ...

Speech to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, 1895 / Booker T. Washington -- Explanation of the objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1921 / Marcus Garvey -- What ...

For Black artists especially, Grammy acceptance speeches have often doubled as cultural timestamps. These moments have carried grief, gratitude, resistance, and radical joy, sometimes all at once.

"The ballot or the bullet," 1964 / Malcolm X -- "The Black revolution and the White backlash," 1964 / Lorraine Hansberry -- Eulogy for Malcolm X, 1965 / Ossie Davis -- "Where do we go from here?" 1967 ...