Herbie Hancock: famed jazz pianist and composer who’s musical career spanned an enduring fifty five years. The public saw him experiment in multiple styles of music such as Jazz, Soul, Electro Pop, Funk and even Classical which enabled him to achieve success with crossover audiences. Born in August 1940 in Chicago USA.…
Jerome Boateng made a name for himself in football as a versatile defender for Bayern Munich. His preferred position is that of a centre back known for his hard tackling and passing skills. He worked his way up to become one of the worlds best defenders and was one of the first black players…
To sports fans in the US, Kareem Abdul Jabbar is known as a legendary Basketball player. For martial arts film fans in the rest of the world, he was known as the tall black bloke who fought with Bruce Lee in the 1972 film: Game of Death. Like a few other basketball players,…
To many, Malcolm X is a controversial figure. In the eyes of many individuals around the world, he was a brave freedom fighter for civil rights. Fearless in exposing racism driven crimes, he was negatively viewed as against whites, and violent to opposers of his time. All Malcolm ever did was tell the truth…
Hakeem Olajuwon is a National Basketball Association Hall of Famer, and considered to be one of the greatest players ever to wear a basketball jersey. He even rivaled Michael Jordan, and had to leave his home country in Nigeria to travel to America to play college basketball. A player with uncanny footwork and…
A Ray of light to the music world. Ray Charles was known to millions around the world as an award winning singer-songwriter and composer, whose career extended for well over fifty years and who’s musical style brought together Rhythm and Blues, Gospel, Jazz and who even transitioned to mainstream pop and Country…
A wonder to behold. Soul Music Legend Stevie Wonder has always maintained the same type of dark shaded lenses for his eyewear, which have included red, orange, brown, black and metal frames throughout his career which has lasted over half a century and have become just as much a part of his trademark as his wondrous…
Dorothy Vaughan spent twenty eight years working for NASA, during which time she worked as one of the “Human Computers” by becoming their first black supervisor. She helped develop the first electrical computer at NASA. With her choice of eyewear being that of the old school headmistress type: think thick black frames on…
With the recent release of the film Hidden Figures: a previously unknown story about three Black American female mathematicians who became the first to work for NASA, has been brought to public attention. But with most Hollywood films that deal with Black History, this film has to have a “white savior,” making…