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Dee and Dwayne [foreground] and Shirley and Rob [background] disco down on “What’s Happening!!” #BlackSkyOver50 #TVSky
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Dee and Dwayne [foreground] and Shirley and Rob [background] disco down on “What’s Happening!!” #BlackSkyOver50 #TVSky
I finally got the opportunity to see MAURICE HINES: BRING THEM BACK [Carluccio, 2019] yesterday. Produced by Debbie Allen, it’s a magnificent slice of Black showbiz history heaven. #BlackSkyOver50 #BlackFilmSky #BlackFilmSky
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I finally got the opportunity to see MAURICE HINES: BRING THEM BACK [Carluccio, 2019] yesterday. Produced by Debbie Allen, it’s a magnificent slice of Black showbiz history heaven. #BlackSkyOver50 #BlackFilmSky #BlackFilmSky
Remembering Stephanie Johnson, b/k/a Tanqueray, the NYC-based exotic dancer with a story to tell who gained widespread recognition later in life via a Humans of New York photo exhibit. She passed away 3 weeks ago at the age of 81 after a severe stroke. #BlackSkyOver50
November 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Remembering Stephanie Johnson, b/k/a Tanqueray, the NYC-based exotic dancer with a story to tell who gained widespread recognition later in life via a Humans of New York photo exhibit. She passed away 3 weeks ago at the age of 81 after a severe stroke. #BlackSkyOver50
Hep Kitt: Cab Calloway and Eartha at the premiere of her film NEW FACES, 1953. [📸: The New York Age]
November 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Hep Kitt: Cab Calloway and Eartha at the premiere of her film NEW FACES, 1953. [📸: The New York Age]
“I’m tired. I’m tired. I’m tired. I’m tired.” Kaycee Moore and Nate Hardman explode in Billy Woodberry’s L.A. Film School masterpiece BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS [1984]. #BlackFilmSky #FilmSky #BlackSkyOver50
October 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
“I’m tired. I’m tired. I’m tired. I’m tired.” Kaycee Moore and Nate Hardman explode in Billy Woodberry’s L.A. Film School masterpiece BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS [1984]. #BlackFilmSky #FilmSky #BlackSkyOver50
Belated happy birthday wishes to actor/author/sportscaster Jayne Kennedy Overton, seen here in a screengrab from the Smokey-Robinson-exec-produced crime caper BIG TIME [Georgias, 1977]. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky
October 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Belated happy birthday wishes to actor/author/sportscaster Jayne Kennedy Overton, seen here in a screengrab from the Smokey-Robinson-exec-produced crime caper BIG TIME [Georgias, 1977]. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky
Rhetta Hughes as Margaret Alexander in the Broadway musical adaptation of James Baldwin’s THE AMEN CORNER. Although this production stalled after 28 performances, the dynamic Miss Hughes still snagged a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Musical Role. #BlackSkyOver50 #BroadwaySky
October 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Rhetta Hughes as Margaret Alexander in the Broadway musical adaptation of James Baldwin’s THE AMEN CORNER. Although this production stalled after 28 performances, the dynamic Miss Hughes still snagged a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Musical Role. #BlackSkyOver50 #BroadwaySky
A bridge (club) too far: [L-R] Clarice Taylor, Arthur French, Esther Rolle and Frances Foster in Barbara and Carlton Molette’s one-act underbelly-of-the-Black-bourgeoisie play “Rosalee Pritchett,” St. Mark’s Playhouse, 1971. #BlackSkyOver50 #TheatreSky
October 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
A bridge (club) too far: [L-R] Clarice Taylor, Arthur French, Esther Rolle and Frances Foster in Barbara and Carlton Molette’s one-act underbelly-of-the-Black-bourgeoisie play “Rosalee Pritchett,” St. Mark’s Playhouse, 1971. #BlackSkyOver50 #TheatreSky
I knew we would be next. Chicago and Black America, stay up.
October 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I knew we would be next. Chicago and Black America, stay up.
Can you dig it?: In 1976, Fitzgerald Publications launched the “Fast Willie Jackson” comic book series, which was essentially Archie and the gang dipped in chocolate and caramel “soul” clichés. The series had seven issues. #BlackSkyOver50 #ComicsSky
September 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Can you dig it?: In 1976, Fitzgerald Publications launched the “Fast Willie Jackson” comic book series, which was essentially Archie and the gang dipped in chocolate and caramel “soul” clichés. The series had seven issues. #BlackSkyOver50 #ComicsSky
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre as a kid.
September 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre as a kid.
Richard Pryor and Lonette McKee during a break in filming WHICH WAY IS UP? [Schultz, 1977], Pryor’s uproarious take on the Lina Wertmuller classic THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI. #FilmSky #BlackFilmSky
September 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Richard Pryor and Lonette McKee during a break in filming WHICH WAY IS UP? [Schultz, 1977], Pryor’s uproarious take on the Lina Wertmuller classic THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI. #FilmSky #BlackFilmSky
Lady Bo: Peggy Jones (1940-2015), “The Queen Mother of Guitar,” widely believed to be the first female guitarist in a highly visible band (Bo Diddley). #MusicSky #BlackMusicSky #BlackSkyOver50
September 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Lady Bo: Peggy Jones (1940-2015), “The Queen Mother of Guitar,” widely believed to be the first female guitarist in a highly visible band (Bo Diddley). #MusicSky #BlackMusicSky #BlackSkyOver50
Poster for the early Clifton Davis vehicle TOGETHER FOR DAYS [alternatively titled BLACK CREAM] [Michael Schultz, 1972], a film about a Black Power activist romantically drawn to a white woman. Fun fact: This was also the feature film debut of one Samuel L. Jackson. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky
September 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Poster for the early Clifton Davis vehicle TOGETHER FOR DAYS [alternatively titled BLACK CREAM] [Michael Schultz, 1972], a film about a Black Power activist romantically drawn to a white woman. Fun fact: This was also the feature film debut of one Samuel L. Jackson. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky
What y’all know about “Bronze Thrills”? Broadway star Bertice Reading on its September 1954 cover. #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky #BlackMusicSky #BroadwaySky
September 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
What y’all know about “Bronze Thrills”? Broadway star Bertice Reading on its September 1954 cover. #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky #BlackMusicSky #BroadwaySky
Gloria Foster and Otis Young in character for the “Take Your Lover in the Ring” episode of ABC’s “The Outcasts,” Jet magazine, 13 February 1969 issue. #TVSky #BlackSkyOver50
September 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Gloria Foster and Otis Young in character for the “Take Your Lover in the Ring” episode of ABC’s “The Outcasts,” Jet magazine, 13 February 1969 issue. #TVSky #BlackSkyOver50
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em: Lou Rawls and Big Mama Thornton, Monterey Jazz Festival, 1964. [📸: Jim Marshall Photography] #BlackSkyOver40 #BlackMusicSky #MusicSky
September 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em: Lou Rawls and Big Mama Thornton, Monterey Jazz Festival, 1964. [📸: Jim Marshall Photography] #BlackSkyOver40 #BlackMusicSky #MusicSky
Two the hard way: Future martial-arts matinee idol Jim Kelly cuts the cake with bride Marilyn Dishman, 1967. The union ended in divorce the next year. #BlackSky #FilmSky #BlackFilmSky
September 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Two the hard way: Future martial-arts matinee idol Jim Kelly cuts the cake with bride Marilyn Dishman, 1967. The union ended in divorce the next year. #BlackSky #FilmSky #BlackFilmSky
@rex3181 and I took in the incredible exhibit IN THE MEDIUM OF LIFE: THE DRAWINGS OF BEAUFORD DELANEY at The Drawing Center in SoHo this past Saturday. If you’re in NYC, you’ve got until Sunday [9/14/25] to check it out. #BlackSkyOver50 #ArtSky #BlackGaySky
September 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
@rex3181 and I took in the incredible exhibit IN THE MEDIUM OF LIFE: THE DRAWINGS OF BEAUFORD DELANEY at The Drawing Center in SoHo this past Saturday. If you’re in NYC, you’ve got until Sunday [9/14/25] to check it out. #BlackSkyOver50 #ArtSky #BlackGaySky
September 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Walter Theodore “Sonny” Rollins. American colossus. 95 years around the sun today. Asé. #JazzSky #MusicSky #BlackMusicSky #BlackSkyOver50
September 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Walter Theodore “Sonny” Rollins. American colossus. 95 years around the sun today. Asé. #JazzSky #MusicSky #BlackMusicSky #BlackSkyOver50
The category is…Ross realness: Sylvester in THE ROSE [Rydell, 1979]. Happy 78th heavenly birthday, legend. #GayBlackSky #MusicSky #FilmSky #BlackSkyOver50
September 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The category is…Ross realness: Sylvester in THE ROSE [Rydell, 1979]. Happy 78th heavenly birthday, legend. #GayBlackSky #MusicSky #FilmSky #BlackSkyOver50
Striking a couture-clad blow against apartheid, Eartha Kitt returns in triumph with a rainbow coalition of children the day after her daughter Kitt [far left] inadvertently integrates a whites-only South African theme park, late ‘60s. #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky
September 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Striking a couture-clad blow against apartheid, Eartha Kitt returns in triumph with a rainbow coalition of children the day after her daughter Kitt [far left] inadvertently integrates a whites-only South African theme park, late ‘60s. #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky
The trippy back-cover art for Ike & Tina’s LET ME TOUCH YOUR MIND LP [United Artists, 1973]. #MusicSky #BlackSkyOver50
September 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The trippy back-cover art for Ike & Tina’s LET ME TOUCH YOUR MIND LP [United Artists, 1973]. #MusicSky #BlackSkyOver50