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July 6, 1931 — Jazz/gospel singer & actress Della Reese was born in Detroit, Michigan.

Della Reese was the First Black Woman to Host a Talk Show known as "Della!" in 1969. Shortly after, In 1970, she became the first black woman to guest host The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

—Delloreese Patricia Early (July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017), known professionally as Della Reese, was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister whose career spanned seven decades.

Della Reese was born Delloreese Patricia Early, in the historic Black Bottom neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan.

In 1944, she began her career directing the young people's choir, after she had nurtured acting plus her obvious musical talent. She was often chosen, on radio, as a regular singer. At the age of 13, she was hired to sing with Mahalia Jackson's gospel group. Reese entered Detroit's Cass Technical High School (where she attended the same year as Edna Rae Gillooly, later known as Ellen Burstyn). She also continued with her touring with Jackson. With higher grades, she became in 1947 the first in her family to graduate from high school, aged 15.

After this she formed her own gospel group, the Meditation Singers.

She began her long career as a singer, scoring a hit with her 1959 single "Don't You Know?". In the late 1960s she hosted her own talk show, Della, which ran for 197 episodes.

In 1970, Reese became the first black woman to guest host The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. She appeared in several TV movies and miniseries, was a regular on Chico and the Man and played the mother of B. A. Baracus in The A-Team episode "Lease with an Option to Die". In 1991, she starred opposite her old friend Redd Foxx in his final sitcom, The Royal Family, but his death halted production of the series for several months. Reese also did voice-over for the late 1980s Hanna-Barbera animated series A Pup Named Scooby-Doo on ABC. Reese achieved continued success in the religious television drama Touched by an Angel (1994–2003), in which she played the leading role of Tess.

From 1975 she also starred in films, playing opposite Redd Foxx in Harlem Nights (1989), Martin Lawrence in A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996) and Elliott Gould in Expecting Mary (2010).

AWARDS

▪1994: Hollywood Walk of Fame: 7060 Hollywood Boulevard—Television

▪1996: Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series—Touched by an Angel

▪1997: Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series—Touched by an Angel

▪1998: Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series—Touched by an Angel

▪1999: Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series—Touched by an Angel

▪2000: Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series—Touched by an Angel

▪2001: Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series—Touched by an Angel

▪2002: Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series—Touched by an Angel

▪2015: Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars

▪2017: Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame Award

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

This is what the ancient people of Kemet (now Egypt) looked like. They were originally Africans before being invaded several times by foreign powers and settlers over the centuries.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

This is from a piece of Ancient Greek pottery that tells us their gods and demigods were BLACK.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Don Lemon on Trump: “He is so jealous of Barack Obama, he cannot stand it. He will never have the class, the grace, the good looks, the education, the beautiful family, the beautiful wife. You have the nerve to think you’re better than Barack Obama when your wife had just had a baby and you’re out banging a porn star? Man, get the fuck out of here with that”

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

Black men leading the next generation of black men. love to see it.
He sounded like the late great Malcolm X very lately!!
Men and women and also for young children really need to hear this powerful speech.

[Black American Families PAC @b1ackfamilyPAC]

A bunch of chaotic Caucasians from Arizona went to Newport Beach for a 4th of July party.

And the locals tried to blame it on Foundational Black Americans.🇺🇸

[Woodz 🇺🇸 @Nibiru1000]

A Foundational Black American woman sets the record straight once again on why we are not African 🤣🤣🤣

Let her cook!

[Tarsha ☀️🌛✨ @TruthSeeker4u2]

🤣 it’s going DOWN

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

"You the most violent people in the world."

[Ravens Nation 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀 @LiveRavenNation]

Former Ravens WR Torrey Smith says Lamar Jackson is the best athlete to ever play a sport in Baltimore.

“He’s the best athlete that’s played a sport in Baltimore…I’ll double down on that.”

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

🚨POWERFUL🚨

#Eagles legend DeSean Jackson completed the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in support of Chris Johnson who is battling ALS.

lI would have never thought I would be sitting here making this video, but God has a plan”

“We’re going to stand with you”

[JAKE ♠️🇺🇸🩸 @jake_oncall]

White guy just admitted on camera that Black Americans are humbling racist Asians and Whites 😂
The energy has officially shifted.
We ain’t asking for respect no more… we’re taking it.
Keep that same energy. 💪🏾

[Rickey Smiley @RickeySmiley]

Imagine being stuck on a train on 4th of July with a bunch of white supremacists headed to a march for white supremacy!! Glad she was safe🙏🏽🙏🏽 Apparently they feel comfortable having marches all over this country!! These are white Christians!! Yep I said it, they will be at the Highlands Sunday with their arms raised towards Heaven!! We know how you feel, uncover your face!

[Robert Red Ford™ @TheRobRedFord]

Real patriots don't need to use masks

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

So White performers,
performing songs by Black artist,
for a White audience that hates Juneteenth, Black History Month and don’t want us to vote….
NOW THAT’S IRONY.

[MAADY @MaadyBK67]

Charmaine x Olympia {Watts, Los Angeles 1973} 👑👑

[Chuck D @MrChuckD]

Whoa

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

Nolan Xavier Wells’ mother has confirmed that the body found earlier today was her son’s after he went missing on July 4 near Horn Island, Mississippi, during a trip with friends.

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

Cariol Horne stopped a fellow cop from choking a handcuffed Black man in 2006. Buffalo PD fired her for it in 2008 just one year before her pension.
She fought for 14 years. In 2021, a judge restored her pension and Buffalo passed “Cariol’s Law,” requiring officers to intervene against excessive force.
Real hero who paid the price but never gave up. Legend. 👏🏾

[Philadelphia 76ers @sixers]

Jaylen Brown is in Philly now. 🎶

@JHudShow