Donyale Luna by Charlotte March, 1966.
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Open up your hearts and your pocketbooks, ladies and gentleman! We are gathered here today to celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the birth of a genius, one Richard Pryor. Somebody say Amen!
Ola Hudson, a costume designer for music legends like David Bowie, John Lennon and Diana Ross. She was better known in later years as Slash’s mom.
Sidney Poitier and Eartha Kitt in the 1957 film “The Mark of the Hawk.” Mr. Poitier portrays a London-born African who returns home for a political position. His character’s name? Wait for it… Obam. Ms. Kitt plays his stylish wife Renee. Photo: John Springer Collection/Corbis.
Jimi Hendrix would have turned 70 years old today. As TIME magazine so aptly put it, “Who else can be heard, resoundingly, in the music of both Prince and Metallica? Funkadelic and Van Halen?” Well, no one… Photo: Barrie Wentzell.
Boxing legend Joe Louis, photographed in 1941 by Carl Van Vechten at Greenwood Lake, NJ. Photo: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Happy 73rd Birthday to the One and Only Tina Turner!!! At left, she is attending the opening party for “Tommy” on March 18, 1975 (Sal Traina/Conde Nast). In the picture on the right, she is attending Giorgio Armani’s fashion show in Milan on February 28,2011. (Venturelli/WireImage).
A 1959 advertisement for After Six formal wear that appeared in Ebony magazine. The female model appears to be the same model from the 1959 Bulova watch advertisement I posted yesterday. I really need to find out her name and where she is from (Detroit? Lagos?)
Diahann Carroll and Fred Williamson on the cover of the Dec. 26-Jan 1, 1971 issue of TV Guide. I promise you this cover is not doing enough to convey how fine Fred Williamson was back in the day…
A 1959 Christmas advertisement for Bulova watches that appeared in Ebony magazine.
Happy Thanksgiving! The great Lena Horne is really demonstrating fuel conservation here (circa 1940s) but let’s just pretend she just put a bird in the oven:)
Maria Hawkins Ellington tries on one of her gifts at a party in Harlem celebrating her marriage to Nat “King” Cole in March 1948. The Coles were married at the famous Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Photo by Lisa Larsen/Time Life Pictures.
