Five Star (5 Star) were a British pop group formed in 1983 by siblings Stedman, Lorraine, Denise, Doris, and Delroy Pearson. Between 1985 and 1988, they achieved four…

Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance met at the Yale School of Drama in the ’80s Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance’s decades-long romance is one…

Ethel Waters was a singer and actor. She was the first African-American to star on her own television show and the first African-American woman to be nominated for a…

Lena Calhoun Horne was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 June 30, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York. In her biography she stated that, on the day she was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧, her father was in…

It was the first teleplay written by an African-American woman to air on network television.June 2, 2020, 2:26PM By MeTV Staff MGM TelevisionShare In 1963, Ann Flagg was earning her master’s…

Fredericka Carolyn “Fredi” Washington was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 in Savannah, Georgia, in 1903 and died in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1994. Fredi began her career as a dancer at the Cotton Club…

Stage and film actress Janet Angel MacLachlan was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 on August 8, 1933, in Harlem, New York; her mother, Iris South MacLachlan, and father, James MacLachlan, were both…