Before the shows, he stopped by Allen University’s Chappelle Auditorium which was named for his great grandfather, African Methodist Episcopal Bishop William D. Chappelle, an Allen president ...

Dave Chappelle's father, William David Chappelle III, lived in the city and the comedian would visit the state often, he told Stephen Colbert during a "The Late Show" appearance in 2017.

asked Chappelle. “Answer me: Do you want to see a celebrity right now? Do we give a ... what Ja Rule thinks? No!” He went as far back as his great-great-grandfather, AME bishop William David ...

At the midpoint of Dave Chappelle’s The Closer—his sixth comedy special for Netflix—he introduces the story of William Ellison, a formerly enslaved Black man who, after purchasing his own ...

His late father, William David Chappelle III, was a music professor and social activist, and his mother, Yvonne Seon, was a pioneer in establishing African American studies as a university discipline.

There are a handful of comedians with a legendary status, but I don't want to hear from any of them the way I want to hear Dave Chappelle ... his great-grandfather William David Chappelle.

That, he suggests, is what the police represented. Most personally, Chappelle brings up his great-grandfather, William D. Chappelle, who was an A.M.E. Church bishop in South Carolina and president ...