Cont. from Ebony Sept. 1956 Post: Lester Young stops by for the photo shoot, and then Lady reenacts the story she tells in her autobiography about meeting Louis McKay after returning his wallet from taking it away from a prostitute in a bar, saying the Louis was her “old man” when he wasn’t…yet.
Billie Holiday, 1958 a year before her death.
50 years ago today…
“Baldwin’s Nigger”. Genius.
Richard Aoki was a Japanese American civil rights actvist and one of the first members of the Black Panther Party. Check out Aoki, a documentary about his life as a Japanese American fighting for civil rights; his involvement with the Black Panther Party and his childhood confined in America’s Japanese Internment Camps. Interesting story.
Pink Anderson and Floyd Council two bluesmen from the Carolinas that inspired the name of the English rock band Pink Floyd.
Never forget…Dorothy Counts being mocked by an entirely white audience on enrollment day at Harding High School. September 4th, 1957
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Happy Birthday to one of my favorite male vocalists Teddy Pendergrass. RIP. Smokin’ hot Aries.
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President Barack Obama & his grandmother, Sarah
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Happy 70th Birthday Aretha!
”Day Dreaming” ~ Aretha Franklin ~