Actor Mark Curry, Now 61 Years Old, Says That Bill Cosby and Sinbad Once Saved His Life Film & TV

Actor Mark Curry, Now 61 Years Old, Says That Bill Cosby and Sinbad Once Saved His Life

Actor and comedian Mark Curry is best known for his role as the star of the 90s TV s…

Michael Evans From 'Good Times' Was 13 Years Old When the Show Began, He Even Released an Album Film & TV

Michael Evans From 'Good Times' Was 13 Years Old When the Show Began, He Even Released an Album

Actor Ralph David Carter who played Michael Evans on the 1970s sitcom Good Times wa…

Emmanuel Lewis, ‘Webster’ From the 80s TV Sitcom, is now a 51-Year Old HBCU Grad Film & TV

Emmanuel Lewis, ‘Webster’ From the 80s TV Sitcom, is now a 51-Year Old HBCU Grad

Emmanuel Lewis, was 12 years old when he debuted as a young actor on the first episo…

Former Slave Turned Inventor Patented Technology Still Being Used in Lawn Mowers Today Business & Inventions

Former Slave Turned Inventor Patented Technology Still Being Used in Lawn Mowers Today

In May 1899, John Albert Burr, an African American inventor from Maryland, patented …

Yusuke Was a Former Slave From Africa Who Became Japan's First Black Samurai in the 1500s Music & Arts

Yusuke Was a Former Slave From Africa Who Became Japan's First Black Samurai in the 1500s

Yasuke, a warrior during the 1500s who became the world's first Black samurai, e…

Before Becoming an Actor, Forest Whitaker Wanted to Be an Opera Singer Film & TV

Before Becoming an Actor, Forest Whitaker Wanted to Be an Opera Singer

Hollywood actor Forest Whitaker has starred in several major film productions in his d…

Isaac Burns Murphy was the First Person to Ever Win Three Kentucky Derbies Sports & Entertainment

Isaac Burns Murphy was the First Person to Ever Win Three Kentucky Derbies

Although horse racing is commonly regarded as an outdated sport for gamblers, there is…

Mary Jackson, the First Black Female Engineer to Work at NASA Aviation & Space

Mary Jackson, the First Black Female Engineer to Work at NASA

There have been many intelligent men and women in history who were made known for doin…

What Denzel Washington Learned From his Late Father Film & TV

What Denzel Washington Learned From his Late Father

Winner of four Academy Awards, star of over fifty films, and a legend among talents, a…

Robert H. Lawrence Jr. was the First Black Man to be Trained As an Astronaut Aviation & Space

Robert H. Lawrence Jr. was the First Black Man to be Trained As an Astronaut

Born and raised in Illinois, Robert H. Lawrence Jr. took a running start in his academ…

Martin Luther King Jr. Was Once Stabbed During a Book Signing Civil Rights

Martin Luther King Jr. Was Once Stabbed During a Book Signing

Prior to his death in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. survived a close brush with death m…

Quincy Jones Composed the Theme Song for the Popular 70’s “Sanford and Son” TV Sitcom with Redd Foxx Film & TV

Quincy Jones Composed the Theme Song for the Popular 70’s “Sanford and Son” TV Sitcom with Redd Foxx

As one of history's most influential record producers, Quincy Jones has decades of…