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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Happy birthday to the late actress, singer, and dancer Dorothy Dandridge!

Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an actress and popular singer, and was the first Black American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater.

After several minor bit parts in films, Dandridge landed her first noted film role in Tarzan's Peril (starring Lex Barker), in 1951. Dandridge won her first starring role in 1953, playing a teacher in a low-budget film with a nearly all-black cast, Bright Road, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

In 1954, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Carmen Jones, and in 1959 she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Porgy and Bess. In 1999, she was the subject of the HBO biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, starring Halle Berry as Dandridge. She has been recognized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Dandridge was married and divorced twice, first to dancer and entertainer Harold Nicholas (the father of her daughter, Harolyn Suzanne) and then to Jack Denison. She died at age 42.

LEGACY:
🎥Many years passed before the entertainment industry acknowledged Dandridge's legacy. Starting in the 1980s, stars such as Cicely Tyson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Halle Berry, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett acknowledged Dandridge's contributions to the role of African-Americans in film.

🎥In 1999, Halle Berry took the lead role of Dandridge in the HBO Movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, which she also produced and for which she won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. When Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball, she dedicated the "moment [to] Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll." Both Dandridge and Berry were from Cleveland, Ohio.

🎥For her contributions to the motion picture industry, she was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 671 Hollywood Boulevard.

🎥Dorothy Dandridge has a statue at Hollywood-La Brea Boulevard in Los Angeles, designed by Catherine Hardwicke built to honor of multi-ethnic leading ladies of the cinema together with Mae West, Dolores del Rio and Anna May Wong.

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[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 2018, 13-year-old Jaequan Faulkner started a small business selling $2 hot dogs with $1 sodas and chips from a stand in front of his house in Minnesota.

But his small business was in jeopardy after someone reported him to the Minneapolis Health Department.

Impressed by the young man’s drive, health inspectors decided to teach the young entrepreneur about proper food handling to assist him in getting his hot dog stand up to code.

The teen’s stand passed inspection, and it was the inspectors themselves who paid the $87 fee for his “short-term food permit."

[Madison365 @madison_365]

Chicago-style restaurant House of Flavas continues to grow beyond its East Side storefront with interesting events like the upcoming Adult Prom Night at the Goodman Community Center.

https://t.co/TIQozjZmhm

[Urban Triage @UrbanTriage]

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[Madison365 @madison_365]

The Vel Phillips sculpture on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Capitol building in downtown Madison is looking to be installed in 2024 and will be the first featuring an African-American woman.

https://t.co/bCsSOeGLqU

[City of Madison, Wisconsin @CityofMadison]

All ages are invited to @MononaTerrace rooftop on Fri, 10/20 from 7- 9:30 pm to view the moon and other celestial objects such as Jupiter and Saturn through a multitude of different telescopes provided by the Madison Astronomical Society.

Learn more here: https://t.co/MBsXtAnxIO

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't pulled the knife out; they won't even admit that it's there." —Malcolm X

[Urban Triage @UrbanTriage]

Urban Triage releases the following press release and Call To Action for community solutions related to recent youth involved shootings and homicides: https://t.co/b4YhvRPUXI
#EnoughIsEnough #PutTheGunsDown #ProtectOurYouth

[Urban Triage @UrbanTriage]

♥️👏🏾 #BlackGirlMagic

[The Cake Lady @got_cake]

Back in the day, thick girls were discouraged from practicing ballet. So beautiful to now see Black ballerinas with body.

💃🏾: Freje Jernisse