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08/04/2024

08/04/2024

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16/05/2023

Mother's Day has us thinking about Louis Armstrong's mother, Mayann. Here's Louis speaking about her to Richard Meryman in 1965: “She was a stocky woman—dark, lovely expression and a beautiful soul. And she instilled in me the idea that what you can’t get—to hell with it. Don’t worry what the other fellow has. Everybody loved her for that, because if you lived next door and you got the world, that’s all right. Just don’t mess with her little world. I think I had a great mother. She didn’t have much power, but she did all she could for me—grabbing little knickknacks here and there and everything, and we put it all together.”

28/03/2023

27/03/2023

The first book to be released by the imprint will be "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)," a memoir by the legendary Sly Stone.

27/03/2023

Sylvia Robinson made music history in 1979 when she assembled a rap group in the studio to record what would become the first commercially successful rap record. Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" was a huge radio hit, crossing over to the R&B Hot 100 charts and selling over 1 million copies. She demonstrated with one record that the nascent genre could have as much commercial success as any contemporary musical genres. Her label, Sugarhill Records, was a major creative force in those early years and she produced seminal records, such as "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, and pioneering acts like The Funky 4 + 1.

Robinson was hardly new to the music industry when she formed Sugarhill Records with her husband, Joe Robinson. She was a successful singer, songwriter, and producer even if she wasn't always credited for her work. Hip hop cemented Robinson's place in music history while her pioneering work elevated the genre and helping to kick off hip hop's global rise.

22/03/2023

Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
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20/03/2023

Lillian Randolph was a 20th Century actress who routinely, yet proudly, presented the role of the black domestic in film and radio and defended her right to maintain such characters in an intelligent fashion for much of her career. Randolph was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1915. She first entered the world of entertainment as a singer at WJR Radio in Detroit in the early 1930s.

In 1936, Randolph migrated to Los Angeles and made her debut as a singer at the Club Alabam. Five years later, she landed the role of the maid, Birdie, on the radio and TV series The Great Gildersleeve, and soon became one of the most sought after black actresses of the period. Randolph portrayed Birdie until 1957. She simultaneously played the role of Daisy, the housekeeper on The Billie Burke (radio) situation comedy from 1943 to 1946, and title role of the radio show Beulah in the early 1950s when Hattie McDaniel became ill. Also in the early 1950s she performed on the Amos n’ Andy show, recreating the role of Madame Queen, which she first played on the radio version of the series.

In 1946, Randolph and Sam Moore, one of the script writers of The Great Gildersleeve program, published a rebuttal to those critics in Ebony magazine. Randolph defended her role as the character Birdie, reminding Ebony‘s readers that the show’s writers had never written dialect into the script and were particularly careful not as not to offend black viewers. Randolph valued the benefits that such parts brought to her career and fought to protect the availability of roles from the efforts of those protesting anti-stereotypical roles in film and radio.

In the early 1960s, Randolph spent several years coaching drama and resumed her singing and acting careers. For more than a decade, she also supplied the voice of the cook, Mammy two-shoes, in the Tom and Jerry cartoon series. Although she repeatedly received several complaints from the NAACP and black community activists who complained about her racially stereotypical roles, Randolph maintained her right to portray such characters as Madame Queen, Birdie, and as the voice of the cook on the popular Hanna-Barbera cartoon Tom and Jerry despite public opposition.

By the 1970s, Randolph had made more than 75 film and television appearances and reached a career that spanned more than decades.

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18/03/2023

Nancy Wilson was a legendary jazz singer and a Grammy Award winner. She was also an actress.

14/03/2023

Sam and Hattie McDaniel are siblings and pioneers of black actors in Hollywood movies. Sam has over 220 acting credits, and Hattie has over 90. Sam first appeared in film in the 1929 movie "Hallelujah," and Hattie began her career in 1930 in the film "Deep South." Hattie is known for her role in "Gone with the Wind" (1939), where she won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Both actors took on stereotypical roles (mostly servants or maids) in Hollywood but opened doors for many African-American filmmakers today.

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09/03/2023

SISTER ROSETTA THARPE in 1938 with her National Triolian 14 Fret. "The Godmother of Rock and Roll" created a riveting style of joy-filled singing with an exciting guitar style. She had a brief flirtation with secular singing when she moved to New York City and played with Lucky Millinder's big band, doing it "Four Five Times," but she always came back to her beloved Gospel music, singing, "Rock Me," "This Train," "Down By The Riverside," "God Don't Like it." and more. She was a superstar!

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05/03/2023

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03/03/2023

Lauryn Hill’s 1998 debut "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" has sold over 10,000,000 units; making her the first female rapper to have a diamond album. Congratulations‼️

02/03/2023

Remembering Zara Cully.
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28/02/2023

Remembering Frankie Lymon.
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28/02/2023

Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays in the locker room, 1954

28/02/2023

Pianist, singer and songwriter Antoine “Fats” Domino was born in New Orleans LA, in the lower ninth ward on February 26, 1928. Fats is known for his chart topping hits: Aint That A Shame, Blueberry Hill and I'm Walkin'.

During his adolescence Fats held many jobs ranging from working on an ice truck to working at the Crescent City Bed Factory. However, at a very early age he had an affinity for playing the piano, but little did he realize that this tremendous talent would lead to an amazing career and make him one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.

Fats' unique piano style and voice would later attract millions from all over the world and result in a career spanning more than five decades, more than 25 gold singles and more than 65 million records sold.

Fats and his wife, Rosemary Hall, (pictured below) were married more than 60 years and had eight children. Fats died on Oct. 24, 2017. He was 89.
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22/02/2023

Jack L. Cooper, pictured here in 1954, started playing records on the air in 1931. Cooper was the first African American disc jockey with a commercially successful radio show.

Jack on his program helped to reunite families in Chicago, Illinois with lost migrants from the South.

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20/02/2023

Vinnette Carroll was an actress, playwright and director. Her acting debut was in 1956 in the Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. In 1967, she founded the Urban Arts Corps in New York City, assisting minority performers in all theatrical disciplines. She was inducted into the Black Film Makers Hall of Fame in 1979. An article was written about her in 2018 by Herb Boyd in th Amsterdam Newspaper titled “Vinnette Carroll, first Black woman director on Broadway.”

16/02/2023

Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize. She won the award for her book of poetry, "Annie Allen," in 1950.

15/02/2023

https://blackculturenews.com/ Redd Foxx made sure that the executives for the show Sanford and Son allowed him to name his character so that he could honor the memory of his brother, Fred, who'd died before the show premiered.

14/02/2023

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