An Uncensored Voice Is Always Relevant: Lysa Cooper
Fashion stylist Lysa Cooper. Whether it's her struggle with finding clothes for her black clients (including Mary J. Blige) or finding a...
Black Actress Fredericka "Fredi" Carolyn Washington (1903-1994)
Fredi Washington was a pioneering black actress whose very light complexion and green eyes often were impediments to her extraordinary...
Dizzy Gillespie The Modernist
Small Group Sessions: The Great African-American Classical Art-Form Dizzy Gillespie's career soared with the surge of interest in bop,...
Actress and Critic Blanche Dunn
Blanche Dunn was born in the West Indies in 1911. At the age of 15, Dunn came to New York City. By 1927, she had attracted the attention...
ELMO HOPE TRIO AND QUINTET
Elmo Hope Qunintet The Great African-American Classical Art-Form Elmo Hope's Trio and Quintet is the one to get. It includes his prime...
THE QUEEN OF SOUL WHITE HOUSE PERFORMACE.
An all-star concert will pay homage to the great “foremothers” of American music, with songs expressing the struggles and achievements of...
Manhattan’s Long-Gone San Juan Hill
The pianist James P. Johnson wrote “Charleston” to accompany a dance. James P. Johnson (1894-1955) Known as the "Father of Stride...
Actress Cicely Tyson and Musician Miles Davis
"She's the prettiest black girl that I have ever known. And we'll be married in the near future." -- Miles Davis, The Pittsburgh Courier,...
Carteles Magazine (1916-1960)
Carteles magazine was published in Havana from 1919 to 1960. Many covers featured illustrated gorgeous pin up models. The cover images...
Long Cleeve Reed & Little Harvey Hull-Down Home Boys Original Stack O'Lee Blues BLACK PATTI
Black Pattie' was one the small number black owned record label in the 1920's..Started by former pro- American Football player, and scout...
