"Jean Baptiste Point du Sable from Haiti, Saint-Marc, founded Chicago, [and] discovered this midwestern territory," Brutus said. The event also marked 15 years since the catastrophic earthquake in ...

26, 1833, in Chicago. (Chicago History Museum) Commonly held belief: Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, Jean Baptiste Point DuSable or John Kinzie discovered the area we now know as Chicago and ...

What's next To kick off Black History Month on Feb. 1, Pendleton will be on Michigan Avenue again, decorating and honoring Jean Baptiste Point du Sable.

The Windy City was founded by Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable, a Black settler. Chicago was home to a stable African American population during the Reconstruction period, but it wasn't until the ...

It may be awards season, but for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, family always takes center stage. During a recent interview with USA TODAY, the Oscar-nominated actress shared a personal update after her ...

NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance you may not have seen yet. “For me, it means a lot,” says the acting veteran, sipping green tea on a recent ...

No one last year gave a performance that comes close to what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in Hard Truths. Photo: Simon Mein/Thin Man Films Pansy Deacon, the London woman played by Marianne Jean ...

And then you start building a new character from that point.” In Secrets and Lies, Leigh and Jean-Baptiste created the delicately wistful, melancholy character of Hortense Cumberbatch ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and ... Sometimes it’s very hard. At one point filming Hard Truths he wanted my character, Pansy, to be more… and I was saying, "It ...

David Webber, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Tuwaine Barrett in ‘Hard Truths.’ Simon Mein/Thin Man Films LTD. Leigh and all of his cast are so on-point here, so dedicated to breathing life into ...