Archive for February, 2016
Dr. Carson’s modest beginnings are certainly what make his career success amazing and almost unfathomable. Born and raised in inner-city Detroit, Dr. Carson credits his mother Sonya’s influence with much of his succ...
Ira Frederick Aldridge was the first African American actor to achieve success on the international stage. He also pushed social boundaries by playing opposite white actresses in England and becoming known as the preemin...
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer. Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s.[1] She is often regarded as on...
https://youtu.be/OIc_IB1cGhs?t=139 Between 1999 and 2006, The Roots would work with J Dilla (f/k/a Jay Dee) a number of times. Then label-mates at MCA Records, Dilla produced elements of the Grammy-nominated platinum Things Fal...
One of hip-hop’s most revered tastemakers, Pharrell Williams, has taken to Instagram to announce his co-ownership of the premium denim brand G-Star RAW. The Amsterdam-based clothier opened shop back in 1989, during Pha...
Britton Johnson – A Legendary Black Cowboy An African-American cowboy, who was a legend in his own time, is barely known today. (There’s a reason for that, but we’ll get to “why not?” in a minute.) His name is Bri...
Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003) the American singer who introduced the “Charleston” on Broadway before becoming a superstar in England, photographed by Carl Van Vechten on January 19, 1933. She was the first singer to populariz...
