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Jermaine Jackson. Hear me out. I was 3.

Flyer for the Eartha Kitt-Wendell Corey Broadway production of Lonnie Coleman’s JOLLY’S PROGRESS, 1959. The play, by most accounts a rather ill-advised Alabama-set interracial redo of PYGMALION, ran for only 9 performances that December. #BlackSkyOver50 #BroadwaySky

Original 35mm slide of Debbie Allen as Michelle [a proxy for the director’s ex-wife Deboragh] in Richard Pryor’s semi-autobiographical directorial maiden voyage JO JO DANCER, YOUR LIFE IS CALLING [1986]. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky

a woman is looking at herself in a mirror while holding a vibrator . ALT: a woman is looking at herself in a mirror while holding a vibrator .

Drop a Lipstick scene 💄

LADY SINGS THE BLUES [Furie, 1972]

Ruby Dee is riveting as Rachel, an enslaved passenger aboard an 1861 train on which a pre-inauguration 🔫 attempt on Lincoln’s life is foiled, in Anthony Mann’s THE TALL TARGET [1951]. #FilmSky #BlackSkyOver50

YouTube video by The Fifth Dimension - Topic Ashes To Ashes (Digitally Remastered 1997)

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Rest in peace to Mr. Lamonte McLemore—one-fifth of The 5th Dimension and master photographer—who has slipped away at the age of 90. #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky #RestInPeace

Cakewalking babies from home: Siblings Frederick (“Fredy”) and Ruth (“Rudy”) Walker, international cakewalking champions who took Europe and America by storm in the early 20th century. [📸: David Hoffman/Boaz Postcard Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History] #BlackSkyOver50

To wit:

Same for me—neck-and-neck with WHAT CHA’ GONNA DO FOR ME.

YouTube video by Chaka Khan - Topic What You Did

Shout-out to the matchless jazz of Chaka Khan—not just the chops, but the EAR. Aside from wailing with the best of them, she executed the crazy bebop tuba arrangement you’re hearing at 3:36. #MusicSky #BlackSkyOver50

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Alice Jubert and Glynn Turman on a lobby card for the Black horror/possession classic J.D.’s REVENGE [Marks, 1976]. #FilmSky #BlackFilmSky #BlackSkyOver50

You stood up to segregated buses and fought like hell 9 months before Rosa did, but because you were a poor, dark-skinned, pregnant teen from across the tracks, the bourgie-Boulé-Links establishment of the movement balked at making you its symbol. Rest well, Mrs. Claudette Colvin. #BlackSky

Cue Faye Dunaway in MOMMIE DEAREST: “Tear down that b**** of a bearing wall and put a WINDOW WHERE IT OUGHT TO BE!!!”😆😆😆😆😆

BARS.

Wow! Wish I had.

Abbey Lincoln [C] shares a riotous laugh with Joseph Attles [L] and director Daniel Mann [R] on the set of the romantic comedy FOR LOVE OF IVY [1968]. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky

“Oh, Meg?…you don’t have any salad!”: Pam Grier getting the royal treatment on the set of COFFY [Hill, 1973]. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky

Never thought of that.😬😆

I knew it. Didn’t pass the smell test, just like everything else this Spanky Epstein “administration” has served up.

IKTR!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Funny—you don’t look 755.😜😄

🎶“Hit man, hit man/Whatcha gonna do about the sit-u-a-tiooooooon?”🎶🔥🔥🔥🔥

Noooooooooo!!!!

Altovise Davis serving looks in Good Housekeeping magazine despite a grievous misspelling, October 1976 issue. #BlackSkyOver50

In the words of KDot, “We gon’ be alright.” Happy holidays to you as well, fam.

THAT PART. And I am the brother in the back left of this photo.

Nicki, it’s giving this…only Sammy had his free papers. Hope the bag and the pardons will be worth your soul. #BlackSky

What a night. And the moment before the winner’s name is announced, you can see Cicely whispering into her date Arthur Mitchell’s ear “Liza Minnelli.”

Cicely Tyson: Body by God, clothes by Scott Barrie, photo by Bill King, Harpers Bazaar, 1973. Happy 101st solar return, Miss T. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky

Minnie’s widower Richard Rudolph co-produced the album.