Admired poet and author Maya Angelou celebrates 85 candles today, and her influence continues to impact others around the nation. She has produced six autobiographies,five books of essays, and several plays and volumes of poetry. Angelou has written about her past dealing with sexual abuse as a prostitute, as well as being a Civil Rights […]
Happy Birthday Gregory Hines, Today the smooth world renowned tap dancer would’ve of been 69 years old . Hines was engaged before his passing and he left behind three kids, daughter Daria, son Zach, and stepdaughter Jessica. His legacy still lives on through the lives of many people who looked up to him as an actor/dancer, including […]
Today ABC’s host of Good Morning America, Robin Roberts, turns 52. Roberts is a Mississippi native who attended, Southeastern Louisiana University where she played basketball and graduated cum laude with a degree in communications. Roberts worked for EPSN before joining ABC as a sportscaster. A Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, Roberts, is a breast cancer survior […]
Happy Birthday Savion Glover. Today the world renowned tap dancer turns 39. Savion Glover is also an actor and choreographer. He is currently working on restoring African roots to tap. Taught by the great Gregory Hines, Savion was a tap dancing prodigy. He has been in countless Broadway productions and Films. Happy Birthday Savion Glover! Kurt Carr […]
Stevie Wonder was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1950 on May 13th. Owing to his being born six weeks premature, the blood vessels at the back of his eyes had not yet reached the front and their aborted growth caused the retinas to detach. When Stevie Wonder was four, his mother left his father and moved herself and her children […]
James Joseph Brown is the originator of funk music and is a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance. Brown was born in Barnwell, South Carolina on May 3, 1933. In 1955, Brown and Bobby Byrd‘s sister Sarah performed in a group called “The Gospel Starlighters”. Eventually, Brown joined Bobby Byrd’s vocal group, […]
Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the “First Lady of Song” “Queen of Jazz” and “Lady Ella,” was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a “horn-like” improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. […]
Cathy Hughes, born Catherine Elizabeth Woods in Omaha, Nebraska on April 22, 1947, is an African-American entrepreneur, radio and television personality and business executive. Hughes founded the media company Radio One and later expanded into TV One, the company went public in 1998, making Hughes the first and only African-American female to head a publicly […]
William December “Billy Dee” Williams, Jr., born April 6, 1937, is a actor, artist, singer, and writer. Williams was born in New York City, New York, the son of Loretta Anne, a West Indian-born elevator operator from Montserrat, and William December Williams, Sr., an African-American caretaker from Texas. He has a twin sister, Loretta, and […]
Jill Scott, born April 4, 1972 is a Grammy-winning American poet, actress, and singer-songwriter. Since 1999, Scott has made a reputation for being a classic, thought provoking artist gained by her 2000 multi-platinum selling, debut, Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1. Her followups Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 released in […]
