Category : Performance

Joyce Bryant (born Ione Emily Bryant; October 14, 1927 – November 20, 2022) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. She rose...

Jimmy “Fast Fingers” Dawkins (October 24, 1936 – April 10, 2013) was a prominent American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer, and bandleader. He...

Zara Frances Cully (January 26, 1892 – February 28, 1978), known professionally as Zara Cully (and sometimes Zara Cully-Brown), was a trailblazing American character actress...

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,...