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“I constantly deal with being called , and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.” ~

05/12/2022

Remembering Betty Wright.
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05/10/2022

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𝗠𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗼, 1940.

05/10/2022

Remembering Johnnie Taylor on his birthday.
Artist Biography by Steve Huey
Young gospel phenom, gritty Stax/Volt soulster, lady-killing balladeer, chart-topping disco king, Southern soul-blues stalwart -- Johnnie Taylor somehow always managed to adapt to the times, and he parlayed that versatility into a recording career that lasted nearly four decades. Nicknamed the "Philosopher of Soul" during his Stax days, that version of Taylor is best remembered for his 1968 R&B chart-topping smash "Who's Making Love," but far and away his biggest success was 1976's across-the-board number one "Disco Lady," the first single ever certified platinum (which at the time meant sales of over two million copies). When the national hits dried up, Taylor wound up as one of the most prolific artists on the Malaco label, a refuge for many Southern soul and blues veterans whose styles had fallen out of popular favor by the '80s. Taylor called Malaco home for over 15 years and kept on recording and performing right up to his passing in 2000.

Johnnie Harrison Taylor was born in Crawfordsville, AR, on May 5, 1934 (though he usually gave his birth year as 1938); he grew up mostly in nearby West Memphis. He began singing in church as a young child and later moved to Kansas City, where he performed with a gospel group called the Melody Kings; it was through this outfit that he initially met and befriended Soul Stirrers frontman Sam Cooke. In 1953, Taylor left home and moved to Chicago, where he joined the doo w*p group the Five Echoes; shortly thereafter, he began performing concurrently with the gospel group the Highway Q.C.'s, which had once been home to Sam Cooke. In 1957, Taylor would replace Cooke in the hugely influential Soul Stirrers, after Cooke departed for a career in secular music.

Taylored in Silk
After four years with the Soul Stirrers, Taylor escaped gospel music's waning popularity and followed Cooke into the world of secular soul, becoming the first artist to sign with Cooke's label, Sar, in 1961. Taylor released a few singles on Sar and another Cooke label, Derby, over the next few years, including the minor R&B hit "Rome (Wasn't Built in a Day)." Unfortunately, Cooke was murdered in late 1964, and his labels folded, leaving Taylor without a record deal. He returned to the Memphis area and signed with the enormously popular Stax label in 1965, debuting early the following year with "I Had a Dream." Taylor scored a few minor R&B hits over the next few years, including "I Got to Love Somebody's Baby," "Somebody's Sleeping in My Bed," and "Next Time." He hit it big in late 1968 with the gritty, funky "Who's Making Love," his first number one R&B hit, which also made the pop Top Five. Taylor was able to land some decent-sized follow-up hits in the years to come, among them "Take Care of Your Homework," "Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone," "Steal Away," and "I Am Somebody." By the early '70s, Taylor's bread and butter had become smooth, elegant crooning, as typified by his 1973 album Taylored in Silk and his two attendant ballad smashes, "I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)" and "Cheaper to Keep Her."
Eargasm
When Stax went bankrupt in 1975, Taylor moved over to CBS/Columbia, debuting in 1976 with the album Eargasm. Its first single, "Disco Lady," was an instant smash, capturing the spirit of the era and selling over two million copies (although some soul fans still debate whether it was a true disco song). "Disco Lady" was Taylor's first number one pop hit, despite losing airplay over its supposedly suggestive lyrics, and it proved such a phenomenon that CBS eagerly pushed him to record more disco-oriented material, something Taylor wasn't extraordinarily comfortable with. He recorded several more albums for the label through 1980, but never came close to duplicating the success of "Disco Lady" and left to sign with the smaller Beverly Glen imprint in 1982.
Just Ain't Good Enough
Taylor recorded one album for Beverly Glen, 1982's Just Ain't Good Enough, which produced a minor R&B hit in "What About My Love." Still searching for a home more in line with the environment at Stax, Taylor soon jumped to Malaco Records, a Southern label dedicated to preserving the region's classic soul and blues sounds (albeit sometimes with a bit less grit than in days of old). Debuting with 1984's This Is Your Night, Taylor and Malaco clicked right away, and he wound up recording a total of 12 albums for the label over the next 15 years, ranking as one of their best-selling artists. Taylor's style during this era had evolved into a hybrid of soul and blues, with more emphasis on the latter than at any other point in his career; he continued to tour steadily through the '80s and '90s, and landed a few more singles on the lower reaches of the R&B chart up until 1990. In 1996, his album Good Love! topped the Billboard blues chart. Taylor's final album was 1999's Gotta Get the Groove Back; on May 31, 2000, he suffered a heart attack at his home in Duncanville, TX (a suburb of Dallas), and died at the hospital.

05/08/2022

Morgan Freeman’s son and two daughters 🤩

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“Panther” was released in theaters today 1995. Screenplay by Melvin Van Peebles and Directed by Mario Van Peebles. The movie starred Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Chris Rock, Bobby Brown, Angela Bassett, Courtney B Vance and Marcus Chong. It was a great look into the rise and fall of The Black Panther Party. It pi**ed me the hell off!!! An emotional ride and a powerful history lesson.

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It’s been a great day with great friends celebrating ’ star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Congrats Greg! Well deserved.

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We are overjoyed to announce that we have been elected to The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2022. There was a time when we were just two scrappy kids from Minneapolis, who loved music and wanted to share it with the world. Knowing now that this is where we’d end up is, to say the least, incredible. Thank you so much to the voters, everyone at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and of course the fans, without whom none of this would be possible.

05/02/2022

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"The Original Kings of Comedy"
Release date: August 18, 2000

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05/02/2022

Michael Wright,American film and television actor, who is best known for his role as Eddie King Jr. in the 1991 Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats, celebrates his 66th Birthday today!
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04/30/2022

"I Believe in the Brotherhood of Man, all Men, but I don't Believe in the Brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want Brotherhood with me. I Believe in Treating people Right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right, who doesn't know how to Return the Treatment." - Malcolm X 🌍🇲🇼🩸🌌☀️👁️‍🗨️❤️👑💥

04/26/2022

20 Years Ago!!👑🌹👑
Gone But Never Forgotten! Today We Remember Lisa “LeftEye” Lopes! (May 27, 1971 - April 25, 2002)

04/19/2022

56 years ago, Bill Russell became the first Black head coach in NBA history.

Russell served as a player-coach with the Boston Celtics for three seasons, winning two titles.

Legend 👏

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Throwback Thursday
ESSENCE May 2000 👑

04/06/2022

Happy 61st Birthday to “Judge Mathis” aka Greg Mathis.

Born April 5, 1960, He is a former Michigan 36th District Court judge, television court show arbitrator, author, television producer, and Black interests motivational speaker.

04/05/2022

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Maya Angelou (1928–2014) was a modern American poet and writer. Maya Angelou is one of America’s leading female contemporary poets. Maya Angelou also achieved much in the fields of theatre, acting, writing novels and also as a member of the Civil Rights movement.

Maya Angelou (original name Marguerite Johnson) was born April 4, 1928, in St Louis, Missouri.

Maya Angelou had a turbulent childhood, but she was able to retell her experiences with great poignancy and effect in her book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1969). This book is a collection of stories from her childhood, and this book made her one of the first African-American women to reach the bestsellers list. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings was also nominated for the National Book Award.

Despite the inequities of her life as a child, Maya Angelou was able to provide a positive message of humanity and hope. Maya Angelou said that “The honorary duty of a human being is to love.”
Maya Angelou married a South African freedom fighter and for a time lived in Cairo where she was the editor of the Arab Observer. However, in the 1960s she returned to America and played a role in the civil rights movement. She was asked to work on behalf of Presidents Carter (National Commission on the observance of International Women’s Year) and President Ford (American Revolutionary Bicentennial Advisory Council).

As well as being a poet and writer, Maya Angelou had a productive career in TV and film. She wrote several prize-winning documentaries such as Afro-Americans in the Arts.

The popularity of Maya Angelou has in large part been due to her ability to write about the many experiences of life with a vivid and engaging style that absorbs the reader. As Sidonie Ann Smith states from Southern Humanities Review:

“Her genius as a writer is her ability to recapture the texture of the way of life in the texture of its idioms, its idiosyncratic vocabulary and especially in its process of image-making.”

In the 1960s, she was active in the civil rights movement, coming into contact with both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. She was the northern leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). With Malcolm X, she helped to form the new Organization of African American Unity. She was devastated after both King and Malcolm X were assassinated in the late 1960s.

In the late 1960s, she published an influential autobiography, which spoke of her experiences growing up: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). It is considered an important work for giving a personal voice to African American women. She went on to write seven autobiographical works.

She has also been active in film and television. Dr. Angelou wrote the Pulitzer-winning screenplay and composed the score for the 1972 film Georgia, Georgia.

After reciting a poem ‘On the Pulse of the Morning’ at Bill Clinton’s inauguration, she became one of the best known African-American authors, and sales increased significantly. Her works have also received criticism for depicting sexually explicit scenes and violence. However, her books remain on many school syllabuses.

Dr. Angelou received over 50 honorary degrees and was for a time Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.

Dr. Maya Angelou passed quietly in her home on May 28, 2014.

04/05/2022

: Alberta Christine Williams King (September 13, 1904 – June 30, 1974) was Martin Luther King Jr.'s mother, married to Martin Luther King Sr. She played a significant role in the affairs of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. She was shot and killed in the church by Marcus Wayne Chenault, a 23-year-old Black Hebrew Israelite six years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

The King's first child, daughter Willie Christine King, was born on September 11, 1927. Michael Luther King Jr. followed on January 15, 1929, then Alfred Daniel Williams King I on July 30, 1930. About this time, Michael King changed his name to Martin Luther King Sr (his son’s name e would also change).

Alberta King worked hard to instill self-respect into her children. In an essay he wrote at Crozer Seminary, Martin Luther King Jr., who was always close to her, wrote that she "was behind the scenes setting forth those motherly cares, the lack of which leaves a missing link in life."

During this period Mrs. King continued her studies at Morris Brown College, receiving a BA in 1938.

She founded the Ebenezer choir and served as church organist from 1932 to 1972. Her work as organist and as director at Ebenezer is considered to have deeply contributed to the respect her son had for music. She served as choir director for nearly 25 years, leaving for only a brief period in the early 1960s to accompany her son and assist him with his work. She returned to the position in 1963 and continued in the role until "retiring" in 1972.

In addition to the choir, Alberta would also serve as the organizer and president of the Ebenezer Women's Committee from 1950 to 1962. By the end of this period, Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr. were joint pastors of the church.

Outside of her work at Ebenezer, Mrs. King was the organist for the Women’s Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention from 1950 to 1962. She was also active in the YWCA, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

Thank you, Mrs. King, for your service!

04/05/2022

Will Smith will be back on the screen soon! Netflix and Bad Boy 4 are money makers and Will Smith is a talented money maker! He was wrong but he is just in a line of wrong doers who have done stupid things at stupid times! There are two movies out right now that the world should see everyday and stop their filming…”The Inexcusable War and Killing of “P”and “The Stupidity of “DT”🤔🤔🤔🤔

Production of ‘Bad Boys 4’ and Netflix ‘Fast and Loose’ On Hold Indefinitely.
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http://krnb.com/lynne-haze/2022/04/04/netflix-backed-away-will-smith-movie/

04/05/2022

Women’s History Month Salute 🌹
Hollywood Trailblazer’s
Eartha Kitt, Jayne Kennedy, Freda Payne (1973)

04/05/2022

Well, here goes them Marys. Hung out with and then this happened😊. We had a blast with
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