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Tina Turner (1981)

Tina Turner performing with a member of the Ikettes, October 2, 1970

Close-up portrait of American actor (and former professional football player) Jim Brown during production of the film ‘Dark of the Sun’ (aka 'The Mercenaries,’ directed by Jack Cardiff), Jamaica, March 1967.

“Three of the stars of the Parade of Stars benefit for the Actor’s Fund of America, ‘Playing the Palace,’ get together after the show. They are Gregory Hines (L), who portrayed famed dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson; Harry Belafonte as himself; and Debbie Allen who played dancer Josephine Baker. The performance took place at the Palace Theater” (May 3rd, 1983)

Harry Belafonte (ca.1958)

Coretta Scott King displaying her book “My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr.,” February 9, 1970

James Earl Jones featured in the tv series NBC Children’s Theatre (c. 1970s)

“Hearing this voice — this vibrant, beautiful, soaring, amazing voice, on whatever that stereo equipment was at the time, was quite overwhelming. I used to sit — very often alone — just listening to the sound and wondering what she really looked like and what her friends were like and what it must it be like to carry such an instrument around in one’s own body.” - Jessye Norman on Leontyne Price

“Because we’re three or four individual people, we like to express ourselves in a show. That’s why we don’t all wear the same clothes and dance the same. There is a tie in our show that is togetherness, but you still see the individual personalities onstage and in the singing.”- Ruth Pointer of The Pointer Sisters

Samuel L. Jackson during Video Software Dealers Association Convention in Las Vegas - July 11, 1993 at Las Vegas Convention Center

Michael Jackson poses for a portrait session on June 12, 1971 in Los Angeles, California

Aretha Franklin in Concert circa 1972

Nichelle Nichols photographed by Joe Shere in 1967

“We opened up a lot of doors for black female groups. We were probably among the first to be a headlining black female group in Las Vegas. People think The Supremes were, but I don’t think they ever headlined as a group. I can’t tell you how good it felt to see our name so big on that marquee. We were definitely the first Black women to play the Grand Ole Opry. We won our first Grammy for a country song. That’s another avenue we opened for black women. We never really were conformists as far as that mold female groups always find themselves in –move together, sing one type of music. We always liked to express our individual personalities when we performed. We liked to surprise people.“ - Ruth Pointer on The Pointer Sisters