Category : Performance

A Trailblazing Actress of the 1970s Brenda Sykes was born on June 25, 1949, in Shreveport, Louisiana, the daughter of a dedicated postal worker, though...

The Disco Sweethearts Who Boogied Their Way to Stardom In the glittering haze of the late 1970s, when disco balls spun like stars in a...

A Trailblazing Actor, Producer, & Activist Robert Hooks, born Bobby Dean Hooks on April 18, 1937, in Washington, D.C.’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood, is a pioneering...

Roscoe Lee Browne was a towering figure in American theater, film, and television—a baritone-voiced polymath whose career spanned over five decades. Born on May 2,...

Born on August 30, 1973, in Columbus, Georgia, Amy Sherald grew up in a close-knit family shaped by her father, a dentist, and her mother,...

Abbey Lincoln, born Anna Marie Wooldridge on August 6, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois, was a pioneering American jazz vocalist, songwriter, composer, and actress whose career...

A Towering Figure in American Cinema Julius W. Harris was a formidable presence in American film and television, known for his deep voice, imposing stature,...

The Voice of Gospel and Healing in the Mississippi Delta Fannie Bell Chapman, born Fannie Bell Norman in 1900, was a revered gospel singer, faith...

Huddie William Ledbetter, known as Lead Belly, was born around January 20, 1888, on a plantation near Mooringsport, Louisiana. His life was a tapestry of...

Walter Brown “Brownie” McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an American folk and Piedmont blues singer, guitarist, pianist, and songwriter whose intricate...