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It’s never too late to absorb this wisdom.

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kafkasapartment

Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles & King Curtis, Fillmore West, 1971. Jim Marshall.

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Total greatness together.

thestonewallinn

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Oh, remember the days going there.

citizenscreen

Wardrobe reference for Butterfly McQueen and Hattie McDaniel in GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)

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The past is gone just lie the winds of time. Thankful for their performances as the winds of change are to come.

didierleclair

From left: Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams in front.

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Greatness

thriftstorerecords

Love And A Woman Gloria Lynne Fontana Records/USA (1965)

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The Great Sammy Davis, Jr. Harmony Records/USA (1969)

onchillvybz

James Baldwin vs Yale professor, Paul Weiss on discrimination

Dick Cavett show, May 1969

ortodelmondo

Ben Shahn, 1930, The Great Depression

detroitlib

View of soprano Leontyne Price in Puccini's opera, "Tosca." Stamped on back: "NBC photo." Handwritten on back: "Miss Price in Act II."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

mahgnib

This may be from Price’s tv debut on “NBC Opera Theatre”, 1/23/1955. Yes, network used to include opera (excerpts, concert performances) in their programming.

greybitch

'I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly because of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly. Their reaction seems to me in direct proportion to their sense of feeling cheated of the advantages which accrue to white people in a white society. There's an element, it has always seemed to me, a bewilderment and complaint. Now that may sound very harsh, but the gay world as such is no more prepared to accept black people than anywhere else in society.’

- James Baldwin, The Village Voice (1984)