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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 2d

Rhetta Hughes as Margaret Alexander in the Broadway musical adaptation of James Baldwin’s THE AMEN CORNER. Although this production stalled after 28 performances, the dynamic Miss Hughes still snagged a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Musical Role. #BlackSkyOver50 #BroadwaySky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 4d

SCHOOL DAZE.

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 6d

A bridge (club) too far: [L-R] Clarice Taylor, Arthur French, Esther Rolle and Frances Foster in Barbara and Carlton Molette’s one-act underbelly-of-the-Black-bourgeoisie play “Rosalee Pritchett,” St. Mark’s Playhouse, 1971. #BlackSkyOver50 #TheatreSky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 8d

I knew we would be next. Chicago and Black America, stay up.

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 11d

Can you dig it?: In 1976, Fitzgerald Publications launched the “Fast Willie Jackson” comic book series, which was essentially Archie and the gang dipped in chocolate and caramel “soul” clichés. The series had seven issues. #BlackSkyOver50 #ComicsSky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 12d

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre as a kid.

Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 16d

Richard Pryor and Lonette McKee during a break in filming WHICH WAY IS UP? [Schultz, 1977], Pryor’s uproarious take on the Lina Wertmuller classic THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI. #FilmSky #BlackFilmSky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 17d

Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice
Luscious Brown Jackson

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 24d

Lady Bo: Peggy Jones (1940-2015), “The Queen Mother of Guitar,” widely believed to be the first female guitarist in a highly visible band (Bo Diddley). #MusicSky #BlackMusicSky #BlackSkyOver50

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 25d

Poster for the early Clifton Davis vehicle TOGETHER FOR DAYS [alternatively titled BLACK CREAM] [Michael Schultz, 1972], a film about a Black Power activist romantically drawn to a white woman. Fun fact: This was also the feature film debut of one Samuel L. Jackson. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 26d

What y’all know about “Bronze Thrills”? Broadway star Bertice Reading on its September 1954 cover. #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky #BlackMusicSky #BroadwaySky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 26d

She’s always been magnificent. I most recently had the great good fortune to see her sing “Somewhere” in person at Roberta Flack’s memorial service.😭

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 28d

The Supreme

Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 29d

Gloria Foster and Otis Young in character for the “Take Your Lover in the Ring” episode of ABC’s “The Outcasts,” Jet magazine, 13 February 1969 issue. #TVSky #BlackSkyOver50

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 29d

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em: Lou Rawls and Big Mama Thornton, Monterey Jazz Festival, 1964. [📸: Jim Marshall Photography] #BlackSkyOver40 #BlackMusicSky #MusicSky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 11

I know what you mean. Roundtree’s charisma is its most redeeming factor. The sequel, SHAFT’S BIG SCORE!, is a much zestier flick.

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 11

THIS. Was thinking it earlier.

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 10

Two the hard way: Future martial-arts matinee idol Jim Kelly cuts the cake with bride Marilyn Dishman, 1967. The union ended in divorce the next year. #BlackSky #FilmSky #BlackFilmSky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 9

@rex3181 and I took in the incredible exhibit IN THE MEDIUM OF LIFE: THE DRAWINGS OF BEAUFORD DELANEY at The Drawing Center in SoHo this past Saturday. If you’re in NYC, you’ve got until Sunday [9/14/25] to check it out. #BlackSkyOver50 #ArtSky #BlackGaySky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 8

60 years ago today. #DorothyDandridge #FilmSky #MusicSky #BlackFilmSky #BlackSkyOver50 #InMemoriam

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 7

Walter Theodore “Sonny” Rollins. American colossus. 95 years around the sun today. Asé. #JazzSky #MusicSky #BlackMusicSky #BlackSkyOver50

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 6

The category is…Ross realness: Sylvester in THE ROSE [Rydell, 1979]. Happy 78th heavenly birthday, legend. #GayBlackSky #MusicSky #FilmSky #BlackSkyOver50

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 5

Striking a couture-clad blow against apartheid, Eartha Kitt returns in triumph with a rainbow coalition of children the day after her daughter Kitt [far left] inadvertently integrates a whites-only South African theme park, late ‘60s. #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 4

The trippy back-cover art for Ike & Tina’s LET ME TOUCH YOUR MIND LP [United Artists, 1973]. #MusicSky #BlackSkyOver50

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hattie McDaniel shines as Minerva, a white family’s housekeeper whose son is accused of a manslaughter actually committed by a member of said family, in IN THIS OUR LIFE [John Huston, 1942], a role that generated serious second-Oscar buzz for her. #BlackFilmSky #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky

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