Billed as the "Oldest Black and White Motorcycle Club in Nebraska," Los Diablos M/C was founded in Omaha, Nebraska, 1960. Omaha, it's clear, was a world apart from Los Angeles at the time. As young black men were banding together in the inner-city neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Oakland, to share both an enthusiasm for custom motorcycles and the emerging black-urban … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: History of Black Motorcyclists
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Thursday Open Thread: Famous Blaxploitation Actors and Actresses
Teresa Graves (born Terresa Graves; January 10, 1948 – October 10, 2002) was an American actress and singer. As the star of the 1974 made-for-television film Get Christie Love!, Graves is credited as being the first African-American woman to star in her own hour-long drama television series. … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Famous Blaxploitation Actors and Actresses
Thursday Open Thread: Lies My Teacher Told Me
Today's thread will focus on the invisibility of racism in history textbooks. What your history teacher told you: Over the years white America has told itself varying stories about the enslavement of blacks. In each of the last two centuries America's ,most popular novel was set in slavery- Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gone With the Wind. Until the Civil Rights … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Lies My Teacher Told Me
Thursday Open Thread: Gil Scott Heron
Prison terms and more performing In 2001, Scott-Heron was sentenced to one to three years imprisonment in a New York State prison for possession of cocaine. While out of jail in 2002, he appeared on the Blazing Arrow album by Blackalicious. He was released on parole in 2003, the year BBC TV broadcast the documentary Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Gil Scott Heron
Thursday Open Thread: Black Burlesque and Vaudeville Performers
Shouldn't Marilyn Monroe be called the white Joyce Bryant, since Joyce was around first... I digress Joyce Bryant (born October 14, 1928) is an African-American singer and actress who achieved fame in the late 1940's and early 1950's as a theater and nightclub performer. With her signature silver hair and tight mermaid dresses, she became an early African-American sex … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Black Burlesque and Vaudeville Performers