Dianne Carroll was born on July 17, 1935 in the Bronx, New York. She attended Manhattan's School of Performing Arts and worked as a nightclub singer and model before making her Broadway debut in The House of Flowers in 1954. That year, she also made her film debut alongside Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones. … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: African American Television Pioneers
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The Chicago Soul Series concludes today with the incomparable Curtis Mayfield. (From Curtis Mayfield Official Site) Curtis Mayfield was born July 3, 1942 in the Cabrini-Green housing projects, Chicago’s North Side, part of a single parent, seven member family in a small apartment. Mayfield first sang before the public in his grandmother’s Traveling Soul Spiritualists’ … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread