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As the long-awaited sequel "Coming 2 America" finally arrives on Amazon Prime Video Friday, a look back at how the 1988 original inspired African pride in a generation of black Americans.
In 1988, Eddie Murphy teamed up with his “Trading Places” director John Landis and put the fictional African nation of Zamunda on the map in the hit rom-com “Coming to America.” ...
(The Root) — When Coming to America premiered 25 years ago, on June 29, 1988, it was an instant classic — and the third-highest-grossing film of the year.
PORTLAND, Maine — Undaunted by a dangerous journey over thousands of miles, people fleeing economic hardship and human rights abuses in African countries are coming to the U.S.-Mexico border in ...
The tandem reunited for 1988’s “Coming to America.” The film, which is about a pampered African royal, who avoids an arranged marriage by fleeing to Queens, New York, is a classic love story ...
That’s exactly what happened to Kennedy Johnson. In 1996, she was 15 years old, pregnant and away from her family. Twenty-five years later, she became an African queen.
Coming to America. Daniella Greenbaum Davis ... America, unlike most European countries, ... Benjamin Prine was buried in an African American cemetery in 1900.
About 200 University of Michigan students and community members, dressed in an array of traditional African attire, gathered at the Michigan Theater Saturday evening to attend the African Student ...