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Posts Tagged ‘Wikipedia

Stop Biting!!!…Will The “Real” Apple Store Kid Please Stand Up!!!

April 19, 2011

Back in the 50’s, before civil rights had reached America,it was a typical business practice for the record labels to re-record hit records popularized in the African-American audience by Black artist, with a white, conservative singer,to make the record safe for the white audience.(Race Records-PBS) Pat Boone and Elvis Presley recorded sanitized cover versions of […]

African-American Superstar Actress And Singer Lena Horne Dies At 92…

May 10, 2010

LENA HORNE (Jun. 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was a ground-breaking singer, actress, and civil rights activist. In 1942, she became the first African-American performer to be put under contract by a major studio. Horne died on Sunday,Mothers Day May 9, at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. Her son Kevin Buckley […]