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arriving for the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on September 12, 1965. Photo: Bettman/Corbis.
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Diahann Carroll at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles in 1967, photographed by Martin Mills
Cicely Tyson and Miles Davis in August 1968 attending the premiere of ‘The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter’ in New York City. Tyson and Davis were not a couple at the time - they actually married in 1981. Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage.
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The Boss…
Olympic icon Jesse Owens Jesse Owens and his wife, Ruth Owens, return home from the Olympics in Berlin on August 24, 1936. The son of a sharecropper and grandson of slaves, the Oakville, Alabama-born Mr. Owens won a record 4 gold medals at the 1936 games, annihilating the racist myth of white superiority in the presence of Adolph Hitler. Mr. Owens stated after his victories, “When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn’t ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either.” Mr. Owens and his wife Ruth had three daughters and were married for 45 years before he died in 1980 at the age of 66 of lung cancer. Photo: by Joseph Costa/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images.
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A god among mortals…..
‘Mama Africa’ is a biopic about the late and legendary South African musician and activist Miriam Makeba. Throughout Makeba’s musical career, her influence was not only felt in her home country, but all over Africa and the world.
The title of the film is in reference to the affectionate name in which she came to be known by throughout the continent as the film pays tribute to a woman whose spirit still lives on.
The film will be showing on April 11 at 7:15 P.M. and on April 13 at 1:30 P.M. at the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center.
New Yorkers—you have been informed!
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with style and grace…
Chuck Berry made rock and roll.
