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With 50 honorary doctorates, Gordon Parks captured black triumphs and exposed injustices
Our childhood experiences shape the worldview we hold and for pioneering African-American photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks, having faced aggressive discrimination as a child in a segregated...
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Redd Foxx, the early comic star whose comedy album sold over 15m copies while being ‘dirty’
Redd Foxx, born John Elroy Sanford, was an early American comic star as well as an actor. His style of comedy, which featured foul language and highly adult subject matter alienated white audiences yet...
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Scatman Crothers, the veteran of show business who was first black featured on Los Angeles TV
Even when Scatman Crothers was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1985, he continued to work on television; the cancer eventually spread to his esophagus and killed him on November 22, 1986 in Van Nuys, California....
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How racism pushed Margot and Norton, a black ballroom dance couple to pass as ‘hispanic’ to be hired
Margot and Norton were a black ballroom dance couple who found fame in America and Europe during the 1930’s & 40’s. Margot Webb and Harold Norton danced the Waltz, Tango and Bolero at the...
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Hubert Julian, first black parachutist who flew over Garvey rallies and landed at feet of Haile Selassie
There was never a dull moment with Trinidadian Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, who came to the world’s attention as the Black Eagle. He was a world famous aviator and soldier of fortune. Julian is regarded...
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Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the fearsome boxer with a lethal left hand
In the story of the fabulous four, who are boxing royalty, namely Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas ‘Hitman’ Hearns, Roberto Durán and Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the latter proved himself a competent...
