moschinohoeversacehottie:

happy birthday to one of the best!

blackgirlphresh:

grandtheftnegro:

G.Parks

Gordon say:  nothing came easy. i was just born with a need to explore every tool shop of my mind, and with long searching and hard work. i became devoted to my restlessness.

coolchicksfromhistory:

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898 – 1989) achieved a lot of firsts in her life.

She was the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the first African American woman to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar, and was the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

“I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.” 

atane:

Aretha Franklin

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wardellfranklin:

Thelonious + Nellie.

beautone:

 Nina Simone and James Baldwin

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vintageblackglamour:

Eartha Kitt arrives at London’s Paddington Station for a two-month cabaret engagement in 1960.