Happy 68th Birthday to the One, the Only, Diana Ross! #THEORIGINALBOSS

Photo (circa 1980s) by Douglas Kirkland/Corbis.

Michael Jackson and Diana Ross at the 1981 Academy Awards.

Whitney Houston with Arthur Mitchell, Cicely Tyson and her mother, Cissy Houston on December 9, 1988. Photo courtesy of Robert Garland of the Dance Theater of Harlem.

Dorothy Dandridge was born on this day in Cleveland, Ohio, 89 years ago in 1922.

Educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown on her wedding day in 1912.  Founder of the historic Palmer Memorial Institute in North Carolina, Ms. Brown was also one of the invaluable suffragists who worked for black women to have the same equal rights black men and white women were fighting for in the early 20th century.  

She was also the great aunt of singer Natalie Cole. In fact, she raised Natalie’s mother Maria and her sisters (her brother’s children) when their mother died in childbirth. Ms. Brown died in 1961.

Cheers! Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong in Paris, 1960. Photo by Herman Leonard.

Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder! #steviewonderisamusicalgenius

Lena Horne reading a note in her dressing room before a show, circa 1940s.

Sammy Davis Jr. snapping a picture of Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher. Photo by Arthur Silber, Jr.

Diana Ross having a little fun with Elton John at the 1976 Rock Awards show.

Diana Ross in the September 23, 1969 issue of Look magazine.

Diana Ross with Elton John and Cher at the 1976 Rock Awards Show.