Biography: Abbey Lincoln |
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Cast: Frank Sinatra Abel Meerpol Farah Jasmine Griffin
Tags: Music History Race & Ethnicity Music Social History History Biography Vocal Music
Length: 57min
Made famous by singer Billie Holiday in an unforgettable 1939 recording, the haunting anti-lynching anthem &"Strange Fruit" was not, as many believe, written by an African-American. Rather, it grew out of poem penned by a Jewish schoolteacher from the...
Cast: Beau Bridges Sidney Poitier Daniel Mann Carroll O'Connor Jennifer O'Neill Quincy Jones Abbey Lincoln
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Romantic Drama Romance
Length: 102min
When it was released in 1968, For Love of Ivy was the first mainstream Hollywood film to depict a mature romantic relationship between a black man and woman. Sidney Poitier stars as Jack Parks, a trucking executive who runs an illegal travelling...
Cast: Michael Roemer Ivan Dixon Robert Young Yaphet Kotto Moses Gunn Esther Rolle Gloria Foster Robert M. Young
Length: 92min
A landmark independent film, Nothing but a Man is the first dramatic story featuring a largely black cast created for an integrated audience (the work of black filmmakers such as Oscar Micheaux was intended for audiences who patronized black-only...
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