After suffering a stroke last year Gil Noble, former host of “Like It Is” dies at age 80.
GIL NOBLE, RIP SHINING BLACK PRINCE of JOURNALISM
by Milton Alimadi – Black Star News
[Tribute To A Mentor]
Brother Gilbert Noble.
Your Legacy is secured and will endure. You were brave. You were honest enough to admit that embracing [...]
The former undisputed heavyweight world champion and 1964 Olympic gold medalist died yesterday after a brief battle of liver cancer. 1944- 2011
Frazier boxing career included 37 professional fights—of which he won 32, losing four and drawing once. Of those bouts three epic battles was against Muhammad Ali. Frazier was the first ever to beat the [...]
The items at Lena Horne’s Estate auction each tell a story of this dynamic woman’s glamorous life, her struggles and survival as an African American woman during the Civil Rights Movement.
Anna Marie Wooldridge better known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was unusual in that she wrote and performed her own compositions, expanding the expectations of jazz audiences. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was one of many singers influenced by Billie Holiday.
Lincoln had a very long and productive career working with the likes of [...]
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer born in Brooklyn, NY. She joined the mike chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood. She broke down barriers in Hollywood for black performers [...]
Dorothy Height, long time civil rights activist, advocate of women’s rights and author dies at 98.
She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women, a position she held for four decades—from 1957 to 1997 and a key organizer during the civil rights movement in which she worked alongside the [...]
By Dolores Bundy
“The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.” ―Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis, often associated with the Black Panthers and the black power politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s, was born into a middle-class family in Birmingham, Alabama in [...]
A Blueprint to Success, Percy Sutton, a True Hero
Today as we mourn the death of Percy Sutton, one of the nation’s most prominent & influential black political and business leaders, we must also celebrate him. Celebrate his legacy, his contributions and commitment to the struggle of Black people. His strength and perseverance is certainly [...]
Today as we mourn the death of Percy Sutton, one of the nation’s most prominent & influential black political and business leaders, we must also celebrate him. Celebrate his legacy, his contributions and commitment to the struggle of Black people. His strength and perseverance is certainly one that should be packaged and distributed amongst [...]