Kool Cats And Hip Chicks

Dedicated to the heroes and sheroes, all the brothas and sistas who made the 1970’s so funky,

but whose accomplishments and contributions never got the respect they really deserved.

Richard Roundtree

  Who’s the Black private dick That’s a sex machine to all the chicks? (Shaft!) You’re damn right Who is the man That would risk

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Billy Dee Williams

  I had an opportunity to meet Billy Dee Williams at Comic Con in Philly and take a picture with him. He was a extremely

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Clarice Taylor

Clarice Taylor, the actress and comedian best known for playing grandmothers on “The Cosby Show” and “Sesame Street,” has died at the age of 93.

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Tony Walton and The Wiz

Emmy, Tony and Oscar winning production, set and costume designer Tony Walton (All That Jazz, Mary Poppins and Broadway’s Pippin just to name a few) shared

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Disney Legend Floyd Norman

Born in Santa Barbara, California, the 75-year-old cartoonist/animator/writer studied illustration at Art Center College of Art and Design. Floyd began his Disney career fresh out

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Where Are They Now!!!

The 1970s produced the film genre that would become known as ‘Blaxploitation’. These films were made specifically with an urban Black audience in mind. These movies

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Janet MacLachlan

Janet MacLachlan, who played the compassionate schoolteacher in Martin Ritt’s Oscar-nominated “Sounder” (1972), has died at age 77. A highly respected stage, film and television actress, Maclachlan

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