Recording Career Scott-Heron began his recording career in 1970 with the LP Small Talk at 125th and Lenox. Bob Thiele of Flying Dutchman Records produced the album, and Scott-Heron was accompanied by Eddie Knowles and Charlie Saunders on conga and David Barnes on percussion and vocals. The album's 15 tracks dealt with themes such as the superficiality of television and mass … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Gil Scott Heron
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Tuesday Open Thread: Black Burlesque and Vaudeville Perfomers
Jean Idelle was a black American burlesque dancer and singer who trained under Katherine Dunham and is credited as one of the first black performers to appear on stage with white dancers throughout the US and Canada. As a young woman, Idelle expressed to her mother she wanted to be a burlesque performer. Her mother was shocked and against her daughter’s dance intentions and … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Black Burlesque and Vaudeville Perfomers
Tuesday Open Thread: Top Black Restaurateurs
Born and raised in New York, Wilson first started cooking with his brother while their parents worked. Deciding to pursue cooking as a career, he graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park. A master of French, New American and Caribbean cooking, Chef Herb Wilson began working at age 23 with the late Patrick Clark, one of the most respected chefs in … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Top Black Restaurateurs
Tuesday Open Thread: African American Astronomers and Astrophysicists
George Robert Carruthers is an African-American inventor, physicist, and space scientist. He has lived most of his life in Washington, DC. He is the inventor of the spectrograph, which is a moon-based observatory that was used on the Apollo 16 mission. George Robert Carruthers was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 1, 1939, and grew up in South Side, Chicago. His father was … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: African American Astronomers and Astrophysicists
Tuesday Open Thread: Black Pirates
Blacks became pirates for the same reasons as other men did, but they also sought the freedom often denied them elsewhere. W. Jeffrey Bolster wrote in Black Jacks, “No accurate numbers of black buccaneers exist, although the impression is that they were more numerous than the proportion of black sailors in commercial or naval service at that time.” It isn’t known how many of … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Black Pirates