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I have personal tumblr that you probably won't like if you like this one: beccaoneal.tumblr.com This blog features vintage advertising campaigns and fashion editorials from Black/African-American publications, video clips and found photographs featuring people of color from the the past. [email protected] http://twitter.com/becca_oneal b.vikki vintage on flickr b.vikki vintage on etsy b.vikki vintage on blogger b.vikki vintage featured on b.vikki vintage featured as a Blogger Blog of Note b.vikki vintage featured on racialicious via threadbared b.vikki vintage x bglhonline.com vintage natural series: vintage natural/curly african-american hair (1920s - 1960s) I have personal tumblr that you probably won't like if you like this one: beccaoneal.tumblr.com

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$10 tix with online promo code BECCA at the link here: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/breakout-artist-comedy-series-rebecca-oneal/

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If you live in the Chicagoland area or around the Midwest (Milwaukee, Indiana, etc) pleeeeaaaaase check out my new show on WCIU The U premiering NYE 9pm and again at midnight. Chicago’s One Night Stand Up! I’m hosting 10 of the city’s funniest stand up comedy performers and the pilot is soooooooo good! 

Set your DVRs!

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The Chicago Reader thinks you should come to Laugh Factory presents Rebecca O'Neal Live tomorrow at 8pm. FREE with RSVP to [email protected]. See y'all there!

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Black History Matter

Meet Josephine Holloway, one of the first African American Girl Scout troop leaders who lobbied for the Girls Scout to include African American.

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One time for my fellow black girl scouts

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PASTEL BRIDESMAIDS | 1960′S

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These are the actual colors of the bridesmaid dresses popular during the 1960s

Scurlock Studios, Washington DC. Courtesy of District of Columbia Africana Archives Project [LINK]

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Dorothy Dandridge in a publicity shot for Island in the Sun, 1958. 

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Female dancers of the Jean-Léon Destiné Folkloric troupe posing with drums decorated with vévés. Date Unknown. Image Courtesy of: CIDIHCA Collections.

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This picture is 140 years old.

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Stunning

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Beautiful People

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She was definitely an amazing, strong, black woman!

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“Few goddesses in movie history had ever seemed so confident and so in control. Few had been so beautiful with such a high-flung sense of drama. No woman anywhere seemed at all like her [Dorothy Dandridge]. ”-Donald Bogle

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Jacob Cornelis van Oostsanen

The Adoration of the Magi (detail)

Oil on Panel, 84.1 × 55.2 cm.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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1970s Times Square

Photo by Kenneth Siegel

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‘The Kissing Case’ And The Lives It Shattered

In 1958, James Hanover Thompson and his friend David Simpson — both African-American, both children — were accused of kissing a girl who was white. They were arrested, and taken to jail. Prosecutors sought a stiff penalty — living in reform school until they were 21.

“The Kissing Case,” as it came to be known, drew international media attention to Monroe, N.C., at the time. But since then, it’s been largely forgotten. Even the Thompson family rarely talked about it. Recently, James Hanover Thompson sat down with his younger brother, Dwight, and told him what happened.

[Read the complete NPR article and listen to the radio broadcast here.]

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Marvin Gaye in motion, by Jim Britt

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1970 newlyweds

New York City/Harlem, New York

(Photo by Jack Garofalo/Paris Match via Getty Images)

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