Despite our predictions to the contrary, number one seeded shows The Jeffersons and Good Times suffered devastating loses in the “Elite Eight” match-ups of our Greatest Black Sitcom of All-Time Competition. See Greatest Black Sitcom Bracket Challenge Good Times was defeated by second seed A Different World. Even more surprising, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air […]
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1970: Joe Frazier knocked out Jimmy Ellis in the second round of their New York fight and became the world heavyweight boxing champion.
1964: Louis Armstrong’s “Hello Dolly” recording becomes his first and only number one record.
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NAME: Mahalia Jackson DATE OF BIRTH: October 26, 1911 PLACE OF BIRTH: New Orleans, Louisiana FAMILY BACKGROUND: Mahalia was the third child to John A. Jackson, a barber and preacher, and Charity Clark, who died at the age of 25 when Mahalia was four years old. In 1916, her father sent her to live with […]
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1946: Tony Award and Emmy Award winning entertainer and dancer Gregory Hines is born in New York City.
1923: The 1st Black professional basketball team “The Renaissance” is formed. They were collectively inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in 1963.
According to Britannica.com Thomas Andrew Dorsey, (b. July 1, 1899, Villa Rica, Ga., U.S.—d. Jan. 23, 1993, Chicago, Ill.), American songwriter, singer, and pianist whose many up-tempo blues arrangements of gospel music hymns earned him the title of “Father of Gospel Music.” Dorsey was the son of a revivalist preacher. He was influenced in childhood by blues […]
1909 – During a “call to action” meeting led by W.E.B DuBois and attended by many other black scholars and activists, the NAACP is founded.
It was 1997 when Love Jones premiered starring budding stars Larenz Tate and Nia Long, and almost 15 years later we’re still jonesin’ for the movie that came to be a definitive portrait of black love. Written and directed by Theodore Witcher, Love Jones was the first in a series of films in the late […]