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Stevie Wonder fans rejoice. This rare DOC, Stevie Wonder Hotter Than July, is a must-see.
Ahhh the joys of Youtube.
Thank YOU.
Rare Stevie Wonder documentary during the “Hotter than July” era, 1980.
Rare Stevie Wonder documentary (55 min) during the “Hotter than July” era, 1980.
Stevie Wonder with his Best Original Song Oscar for “I Just Called To Say I Love you” from “The Woman in Red” in 1985.
Reporters for the New York Amsterdam News at work in the newsroom, 1936. Photo by Lucien Aigner.
Lena Horne reading a note in her dressing room before a show, circa 1940s.
Roxie Roker with her son, Lenny Kravitz. Via Lenny’s Facebook fan page.
Diahann Carroll and her mother Mabel Johnson at a post-Oscar dinner party in her honor on April 5, 1975. Diahann was nominated for Best Actress for her role in Claudine. Ellen Burstyn won the award for her role in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.
Diahann Carroll and her mother Mabel Johnson at a post-Oscar dinner party in her honor on April 5, 1975. Diahann was nominated for Best Actress for her role in Claudine.
Josephine Baker, her husband Jo Bouillon with some of their adopted children in France, 1964.
Eartha Kitt and her daughter Kitt McDonald in London in 1965.
Lena Horne embracing her daughter Gail Jones in 1960. Now Gail Buckley, she is the author of The Hornes: An American Family.
Martin Luther King Jr. with his mother, Alberta Williams King and his wife Coretta Scott King at Harlem Hospital in 1958. Dr. King was recovering from a stab wound after an attack by a disturbed woman.
Coretta Scott King plays with her daughter Berniece outside of Ebenezer Baptist Church in November 1964. #mothersday
Hazel Scott (with Paul Robeson in the background) performing at a dinner in Brooklyn in honor of Hugh Mulzac, the first African American captain in the U.S. Navy to command an integrated crew during World War II.
