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Rick Chow Acquitted For Killing Cyrus Carmack Has History  youtube.com/live/1X9ProqF7yM?si=HmWEcfNUCXq_rmfU

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Peabo Bryson Rest in Power Brother

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Warren Sapp On America's Holocaust On Black People https://youtu.be/_0u8rUq_2b4?si=XQMTU...

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Today, the Solar Records family pauses to honor and remember the life of Foster Sylvers.

From his remarkable beginnings as a gifted young artist to his lasting contributions as a singer, songwriter, producer, and creative force, Foster’s talent touched generations. His music brought joy, his smile brought warmth, and his spirit brought light to everyone fortunate enough to know him.

Foster’s journey is woven into the fabric of the Solar legacy, and his influence will continue to resonate through the music, memories, and lives he helped shape.

We celebrate a life filled with music, love, laughter.

Though he may be gone from our sight, his voice, his creativity, and his legacy will live on forever in our hearts.

Rest in peace, Foster Sylvers.

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The Whitman Sisters “Royalty of Negro Vaudeville” “So completely has evidence of the Whitman Sisters disappeared that it’s almost as if someone had deliberately cut them out of the pages of show business history. Yet for forty years from the late 1890s to the late 1930s, the Whitman Sisters shows were the biggest, fastest, flashiest shows in black vaudeville. Their annual touring show became an incubator for talent especially dancers.The Whitman Sisters “Royalty of Negro Vaudeville” “So completely has evidence of the Whitman Sisters disappeared that it’s almost as if someone had deliberately cut them out of the pages of show business history. Yet for forty years from the late 1890s to the late 1930s, the Whitman Sisters shows were the biggest, fastest, flashiest shows in black vaudeville. Their annual touring show became an incubator for talent especially dancers.

The sisters were the daughters of Reverend Albery Allson Whitman and Caddie Whitman (née White), who lived in Ohio, Arkansas and Kansas before settling in Atlanta, Georgia. The sisters had an older brother, Caswell (1876–1936). Reverend A. A. Whitman came to be known as the "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race". The sisters were taught by their father to sing religious songs and to dance, in order to accompany him on evangelical tours.

Because they were light skinned, they dyed their hair blonde, looking very much like Gibson Girls who were able to start their show business career touring in many white Vaudeville shows. The Whitman Sisters would become the highest paid Black act on the Negro Vaudeville circuit. They managed their own shows which became the biggest, classiest, fastest, flashiest most dignified shows in Black vaudeville.

These four women danced, sang and played banjos and were profoundly talented entertainers and impressive entrepreneurs, whose own Stage company would be the very springboard for many up and coming musical and stage luminaries to come. They would have anywhere from 20 to 30 performers in the show and had six to eight programs running at any one time and always did a Shake Dance to Diga-diga-do.

Mabel (or May) successfully ran the production company and was the producer, manager and director. She was a voice of change in the racially corrupt practices and racial segregation in vaudeville. In 1910 Mabel created her own troupe of Picks (Pickaninny’s) called Mabel Whitman and the Dixie Boys while Mabel sang and the boys danced. Mabel was the first to quit performing in the shows. May also coached the Picks in the shows.

Essie who was a big-voiced comic-singer and labeled as a real coon shouter at the time, was in charge of designing and making the costumes for the group. Essie retired in the late twenties and became a preacher at the Metropolitan Church.

Alberta (or Bert) who was an agile flash dancer also worked as a male impersonator which in most of her acts and handled all the shows finances. She was in charge of the music end and composed much of the music that the group would use. Alberta did the “Strut” as her dance act.

Alice, the youngest was regarded by many as the “Queen of Taps and Champion Cakewalk dancer.” Alice joined the group in 1909 and would sing and dance. She was praised by many for having a fabulous figure as well. She did many dances of the day including the Shim Sham Shimmy, Ballin’ The Jack, Walkin’ the Dog and the Sand as well as the standards like Tap dance. Alice’s son Albert also joined the show and grew to become a great dancer in his time.

Despite their forty years of popularity, information about them all but disappeared.They left no film, nor sheet music, and close to no records, though Essie made some recordings for Black Swan and Paramount in the early 1920s.

The surviving sisters were interviewed in the 1960s by Jean and Marshall Stearns, who included a chapter about the Whitmans in their work Jazz Dance. Their full role was uncovered by the efforts of Black American Theater Studies scholar Nadine George-Graves, who analyzed a wealth of local and regional publications,[9] and published her findings in 2000 as The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theatre, 1900-1940.

After Essie retired from performing, she became a lay preacher in Chicago. She was married three times and died, aged 80, in a house fire in 1963. Alberta died in Atlanta in 1964, and Alice died in Chicago in 1968. Alice's son, Albert "Pops" Whitman (1919-1950), became a noted tap dancer in his own right.

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In 1912, Black Californians Charles and Willa Bruce bought a small slice of Manhattan Beach real estate for around $1,200. They built a resort for fellow Black families in the area who found themselves unwelcome at Whites-only beaches, even renting out bathing suits and selling snacks and they were almost immediately subjected to racist attacks.

Everyone from neighbors, the police, the city council, and even the Ku Klux Klan tried to close the beach down. The city imposed 10-minute parking limits near the beach to try and discourage visitors, and finally in 1924, the Manhattan Beach city council just seized the property entirely, offering the Bruces a fraction of their asking price. Today, the stretch of beach is worth around $20 million and Los Angeles County just voted to finally return it to the Bruces' descendants.

The remarkable saga of Bruce's Beach serves as a historic milestone for land restitution, ultimately concluding with the descendants reclaiming their ancestral wealth. While Los Angeles County officially transferred the property deed back to the heirs of Charles and Willa Bruce in July 2022, the family ultimately chose to sell the land back to Los Angeles County for $20 million in January 2023.
In my opinion family the Bruce family still got scammed by Los Angeles County and California when we know this land is really worth billions of dollars 💸. What are your opinions..

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Foster Sylvers May You Rest in power Brother, Condolences To The Sylvers Family. Who remembers this brother.
R&B singer, songwriter, and producer Foster Sylvers passed away on May 30, 2026, at the age of 64. He died following a battle with metastatic prostate cancer.

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Bernice was a Worthy Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star, a member of the Crosswords Homemaker's Club, and the Marion 400 Social and Literary Federated Club. Bernice McMurry Scott, mother-in-law of Martin Luther King, Jr, died on 26 February 1996 in Fulton County, Georgia.

Bernice McMurry Scott (mother of Coretta Scott King) was of mixed-race heritage. She primarily identified as Black American while also having significant Irish and Indigenous (Native American) ancestry.

Her mother, Mollie (Smith) McMurry, was born into slavery. Mollie was the daughter of an enslaved woman and her white plantation owner. Her father, Martin van Buren McMurry, was of Black American and Irish descent. Martin was born to an enslaved woman of Black and Indigenous ancestry and a white man who never acknowledged him. Because of this lineage, her father had a very fair-skinned complexion

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Regina Willingham spoke out after losing a legal battle to stop Hulu’s 2024 documentary Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told from using archival Freaknik footage. She and several professional women argued the footage could harm their reputations and careers. 🤔

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Touré Exposed Cheyenne Bryant Behind The Scenes Drama https://youtu.be/aJT58_-FLDE?si=HTYea...

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