Untitled

[vaticanrust]

Oakland, California.  1959.

[vaticanrust]

Little Richard

[vaticanrust]

Civil Rights Pioneer Gloria Richardson

[vaticanrust]

Jimi Hendrix on stage

[vaticanrust]

Tina Turner

[vaticanrust]

Iron Shell, Lakota, Sioux tribe. Half-length portrait in traditional clothing. 1908. Photo from Library of Congress-Prints and Photographs division in Washington DC

[vaticanrust]

Amy Winehouse

[vaticanrust]

Thelonious Monk

[vaticanrust]

[vaticanrust]

Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali at a training session

[vaticanrust]

Tina Turner

[deadddiary]

[hoaxvault]

[indiespace-blog1]

[vintageblackglamour]

Langston Hughes in the 1920s. 

[vintageblackglamour]

Ladybird Cleveland, an artist and the mother of legendary model Pat Cleveland. Photo by Carl Van Vechten.

[vintageblackglamour]

One of the earliest Black superstars, singer Florence Mills (1896-1927) on August 1, 1923 in ‘Dover Street to Dixie’ at the London Pavilion. Best known as the lead in the first all-black Broadway musical, “Shuffle Along” in 1921, Ms. Mills sudden death in 1927 at the height of her popularity devastated her friends and fans in the United States and Europe. An estimated 150,000 people lined the streets of Harlem to mourn her passing. Photo: Bassano/National Portrait Gallery, London.