Stephen Hawkins (1945-2021) and The South Side Movement

This page is about trumpeter Stephen Hawkins, who was in the Chicago-based 70s soul/funk band, The South Side Movement. As I explain in My Library public list compiled at Google Books which is linked below, at times he is referred to as Steve Hawkins, and, as you can see from …

Dorothy Butler Gilliam with Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America #Trailblazer

Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America by Dorothy Butler Gilliam When the @washingtonpost hired me I was 23 years old! It was my job to point out the injustices in the black community to my new audience. I was a #Trailblazer succeeding through …

Milton Quon, Disney Animator and more!

  Website for Milton Quon / Watercolors   Milton Quon, Disney animator who worked on ‘Fantasia’ and ‘Dumbo,’ dies at 105 – Los Angeles Times           Chinese in Hollywood by Jenny Cho and the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California https://t.co/x28m4nAydQ via @amazonIncludes #Disney animators Tyrus …

When Help is Needed and Roe v Wade 1–22–73

This post is about two Twitter Lists that come off my @RebelliousVal account, which exists in conjunction with the @RebelliousMag publication of Karen Hawkins. More on that in the tweets below! My When Help is Needed Twitter List began with wanting to have a list of the organizations that help …

Lin-Manuel Miranda Essay: A Plan for the Interview When It Happens

(The assignment from October 2018 was to write a quick PR bio of Lin-Manuel Miranda, as if you were preparing to interview him.)   Lin-Manuel Miranda, born in New York to a chiefly Puerto Rican family, and fluent in Spanish, is a richly talented music artist and enthusiastic performer whose …

The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir by Jenifer Lewis AND Jackie’s Back!

The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir by Jenifer Lewis @JeniferLewis AND Jackie’s Back!         Tweets by JeniferLewis Tweets by itsSHANGELA      

Shudder -The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs

Join Prime Video Channels Free Trial Shudder                     Official Art Arrives for Shudder’s Weekly Series “The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs” – https://t.co/HSRw884X0I pic.twitter.com/PgkGXWhGGC — Valerie Hawkins (@valsadie) March 17, 2019    

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis        

Pioneer Filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché

The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers (Box Set) DISC ONE: ALICE GUY-BLACHE Mixed Pets [AM], Alice Guy Blaché, 1911, 14.1 min. Tramp Strategy [AM], Alice Guy Blaché, 1911, 12 min. Greater Love Hath No Man [AM], Alice Guy Blaché, 1911, 16.25 min. Algie the Miner [AM], …