Alta and Lamont Alexander preserve and share house of Dr. Sidney White, a dentist, and his wife, Helen White, an educator and ...

The Oscar winner’s candid, entertaining memoirs unveil the man behind the icon, from his rivalry with Harry Belafonte to ...

Black Americans have always led our own struggle for freedom and justice, but we couldn’t do it alone. Standing beside leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass were ...

The Musical brings to the Broadway stage the extraordinary life and legacy of the legendary entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.. Since Davis's passing in 1990, there has been significant interest from ...

But marches and protests for civil rights and sit-ins at whites ... as were Muhammad Ali (when he was still known as Cassius Clay), Sammy Davis Jr., Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jackie Robinson ...

Samuel George "Sammy" Davis ... As an African American, Davis was the victim of racism throughout his life, and was a large financial supporter of civil rights causes. Davis had a complex ...

Sammy Davis Jr ... around the globe chasing Davis, desperate to persuade him to star in what he believed would be box office manna: a musical for the civil rights movement.

All smiles and hugs, Sammy Davis Jr. was in high ... younger Black activists who’d called Davis an Uncle Tom before was joined by mainstream civil rights leaders. To try to quell the controversy ...

Sammy Davis Jr. and Quincy Jones, as well as civil rights titans such as Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Students checking-in at the Tremont St. Methodist Church ...

The series was written by Lee Daniels and Thomas Westfall and is based on Will Haygood’s biography, In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr. You can ... acquired the rights to the series.

Sammy Davis Jr was photographed wearing the ring at several moments during his career Jewellery that once belonged to Sammy Davis Jr has been sold at auction The gold ring embossed with a yellow ...

As his career skyrocketed and he became a voice of his generation, he never lost sight of what he truly cared about: advocating for equal rights ... Joan Baez, Sammy Davis Jr., Mahalia Jackson ...