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  Forest Whitaker will get a special award during the 45th NAACP Image Awards telecast, to air live on Saturday, Feb. 22 on TV One. The civil rights group announced today that the Academy Award-winning actor, producer and director will receive the NAACP Chairman’s Award, given in recognition of special achievement and distinguished public service. “Forest […]

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Kerry Washington and Forest Whitaker are adopting some of the nation’s worst-performing schools and pledging Monday to help the Obama administration turn them around by integrating arts education, reports the Huffington Post. The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities will announce a new Turnaround Arts initiative as a pilot project for eight schools […]