Over 11K music fans have voted on the 120+ Greatest Black Female Singers. Current Top 3: Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald
Also ranks #9 on The 100+ Best Movies With Black Female Leads Also ranks #15 on The Best Black Drama Movies 63 Our Friend, Martin John Travolta, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg 19 votes Our Friend, Martin is a 1999 animated children's educational film about Martin Luther King, Jr. and ...
Jazz is rooted in the rhythm of the Mile High City – and the sound leads back to a historic Denver neighborhood. Feb 6, 2024 Effort aims to correct the record on experience of Black firefighter in 1930s What Sidney Frelow wanted most was to continue to work in the fire service....
female singers at a time when segregation was still sustained by custom, prejudice, and money. At her famous 1973 Carnegie Hall performance,Fernández performed “Mi Ochún,”a Black woman’s prayer to have a baby. She explained to her audience how “a woman’s husband could just leave her...
(Richard Gere) falls for Vera Cicero (Diane Lane), the stunning girlfriend of famous gangster Dutch Schultz (James Remar). Meanwhile Dix's brother, Vincent (Nicolas Cage), falls in with Schultz's crew, while Owney Madden (Bob Hoskins), the jazz venue's proprietor, has his own ...
and reigniting my obsessional adolescent pop enthusiasms in my bedroom when I would play both Culture Club and Dead Or Alive on repeat and do pastel paintings of both lead singers – I went to their concerts, out of my mind with excitement, shrieking hysterically with female friends from scho...
female empowerment, and anything that gave black women or poor white women a seeming advantage was enough to set off the ire of the privileged. "Liberty from a firm white paymaster breeds other liberties in Southern coloreds: haughtiness, arrogance, dangerous displays of learning leading to ...
From 1947, theTavistock Institute, Frankfurt School, Alsos Mission/Manhattan Nuclear Bomb Project, and theU.S. governmenthaveclandestinelycombined to try to depreciate, control and shape the art of black folk music (gospels, spirituals, chants, blues, jazz, rhythm & blues). For clarity, I will...
Set in Chicago during the 1920s Jazz Age, the film follows the rivalry between two female murderers (Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger) who vie for the affection of a seedy public defense attorney (Richard Gere) following a crime of passion. ...
1924—The sensational Jazz singerSarah Vaughnwas born on this day in Newark, N.J. She went on to become what many considered “the world’s greatest singing talent.” She was known as the “incomparable Sarah Vaughn.” 1970—Mariah Careywas born on this day in Long Island, N.Y. ...