Alvin Ailey Jr. was an African American modern dancer and choreographer and the founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. He founded The American Dance Theater in 1958 featuring African American dances. The company was integrated in 1963. He died in 1989 of Aids at the age of 58. Early Life: Alvin Ailey Jr. ...
Whoopi Goldberg – Whoopi Goldberg is most famous for her comedy, but she has long been a humanitarian and a strong role model for both women and people of color. In addition to her film roles, she was a long-time head-liner on Comic Relief. She was the second black woman to win an Oscar. She ...
Monday, November 29, 2010 marks the 24th anniversary of acting great Cary Grant’s death. At 11: 22 p.m. on November 29, 1986, Grant passed away at St. Luke’s Hospital in Iowa. He had suffered a stroke and was in a coma before he got to the hospital. He was 82 years old at the time ...
Aretha Franklin’s Top 20 Hits The legendary “Queen of Soul” was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1942. The daughter of Reverend Cecil L. Franklin, who was the pastor of the New Bethel Church in Detroit, Aretha was taught to sing gospel music at the age of nine by the late Reverend James Cleveland. Aretha recorded ...
Top 20 Bruce Springsteen Hits Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1949, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen, spent most of his childhood and school years in the borough of Freehold, New Jersey. Bruce was inspired to go into music after watching Elvis Presley perform on The Ed Sullivan Show and at the age of thirteen, ...