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SASS AND SHIMMER | VINTAGE BLACK GIRL MAGIC
Sass And Shimmer: The Dazzling History Of Black Majorettes And Dance Lines, Essence Magazine
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Princess Diahann | Vintage Black Glamour & Grace
Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer, model, and activist. She rose to prominence in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones (1954) and Porgy and Bess (1959). In 1962, Carroll won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, a first for an African-American woman, for her role in the Broadway musical No Strings. In 1974 she starred in Claudine alongside James Earl Jones for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Her title role in Julia, for which she received the 1968 Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star – Female, was the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role, and was a milestone both in her career and the medium. In the 1980s, she played the role of Dominique Deveraux, a mixed-race diva, in the prime time soap opera Dynasty. Carroll was the recipient of numerous stage and screen nominations and awards, including her Tony Award in 1962, Golden Globe Award in 1968, and five Emmy Award nominations. She died on October 4, 2019, from breast cancer.
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SHIRLEY BASSEY | THE OTHER “BOND GIRL”
Shirley Bassey (b. 1937) is widely regarded as one of the most popular vocalists of the 20th century in Great Britain.  In the U.S., she is best known for singing the themes songs of three James Bond films: Goldinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). The only singer to do so more than once. She recently performed at the 2022 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTAS) honoring the 60th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1999 by Queen Elizabeth II for services to entertainment.
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DIAHANN CARROLL / VINTAGE BLACK GLAMOUR & GRACE African American singer, television and stage actress known for her performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts (Carmen Jones-1954, Porgy and Bess-1959). Played the main character in Julia (1968), one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role and was followed by her portrayal of Dominique Deveraux in the primetime soap opera Dynasty over three seasons.
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Date: 1932
Photographer: James Van Der Zee
Medium: Gelatin silver print
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Dorothy Dandridge, circa 1953.
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Tina Turner photographed by Lynn Goldsmith performing in Miami Beach, 1976.
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Michael Jordan in Paris, 1985.
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Albert Einstein teaching at Lincoln, the United State's first Historical Black University, 1946.
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A couple dancing in a 1950s nightclub
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Muhammad Ali, Yousuf Karsh, 1970
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Joe Louis, Carl Van Vechten, 1941
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BB King on stage at the Hippodrome, Beale Street in Memphis, TN, with Bill Harvey, Ernest C. Withers, circa 1950
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Diana Ross at Studio 54, Sonia Moskowitz, 1979
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Diana Ross filming Mahogany, 1975
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Earle Richardson, Employment of Negroes in Agriculture, 1934, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Earle Richardson chose to depict fellow African Americans working barefoot in a southern cotton field. These workers are not bent over to pick cotton; the monumental figures stand with a quiet pride that transcends their identity as manual laborers. Their forms take up the foreground, confronting the viewers as equals.
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Her magnificent dark body, a new model to the French, proved for the first time that black was beautiful. - Janet Flanner, "New Yorker" correspondent.
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