In Memory of an Apollo Legend
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Cab Calloway , Mae West, Norma Miller, Arthur Mitchell #BlackLivesMatter
Celentano worked with my mother in several, movies, and recordings with Dancer CHOREOGRAPHER #JonLei he is an Iconic Italian Comedian, Singer, Director, this is my mother, while filming #Yuppidu
Happy Birthday to the late Coretta Scott King. She was an author, activist, civil rights leader and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
She wasn’t just the wife of an American hero, she was an icon in her own right.
Join us in celebrating the 97th birthday of Mrs. Coretta Scott King. She was a phenomenal woman, wife, mother, singer, visionary, and architect of the King legacy. We celebrate you! #CSK#CorettaScottKing
In 1963, the famous photographer Richard Avedon took a picture of a man named William Casby. William Casby, born in 1857, was 106 years old at the time. In his hands, he was holding his great-great-granddaughter, Cherri Stamps-McCray.
The image amazes me because the elderly gentleman holding his descendant so tenderly, was born into slavery more than a century prior. Casby would eventually live until 1970, dying at the age of 113. His great- and great-grandchildren are alive today, and many of them remember him.
It puts into perspective just how relatively recent slavery existed. Because as faraway and distant as it may feel now. Even in modern-day America, there are people who have active memories of talking to former slaves.
When Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her bedroom on the 5th of August, 1962, she was wearing nothing.
Her housekeeper, Eunice Murray, who had found her, chose the last dress Marilyn had worn for her to be buried in.
The dress was a Pucci green dress, a favorite dress of Marilyn's. It had long sleeves, a cord around the waist, and was timeless and simple in a Peppermint green.
Marilyn Monroe had worn the dress a few months earlier when she visited Mexico and when a photographer complimented her dress, she is said to have said: "You should see it on a hanger!"
Maya Angelou's first dance partner in San Francisco, R.L. Poole, formed the duo 'Poole and Rita,' performing at the Champagne Supper Club. Charlie Parker's 'Cool Breeze' was Angelou's preferred dance practice music. #MayaAngelou#95Facts