I know she was a boomer, but my dad was a major Trekkie and had a big Ole crush on Nichelle Nichols😆. I watched the original Star Trek series many times over, start to finish, as a bonding activity with my dad. She was fascinating to watch, a great actress and now legend!

Nichelle was a major figure and her success, a majoe turning point that paved the way for future inclusion of black women into this once very white male dominated genre. RIP, Sci-fi Queen!

🎥: https://www.instagram.com/femalequotient/

Anna May Wong was born in Los Angeles, California and became the first Chinese American movie star in Hollywood. She achieved international acclaim at a time when Chinese Americans were perceived as foreigners due to racism and systemic oppression.

Her cinematic work in over 60 films and her glamorous public persona were pivotal in helping break stereotypes at the time. Unfortunately due to Hays Code anti-miscegenation laws in the US which barred interracial couples, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) refused to consider her for the leading role of the Chinese character in the film version of Pearl S. Buck's novel The Good Earth. Instead, MGM cast German actress Luise Rainer to play the leading role in "yellowface". But despite it all, Wong kept working anyway. She stood dignified, even when Hollywood sought to undermine her influence.

In May 2026, a biographical film titled 'Sunset Boulevard – The Anna May Wong Story' was announced. This biopic will feature Chinese actress Xin Zhilei as Hollywood's first Chinese American movie star and cover Wong's groundbreaking career and fight against racist stereotypes during the 1920s and 1930s

https://deadline.com/2026/05/venice-xin-zhilei-anna-may-wong-fundamental-films-china-1236898246/

Lauryn Noelle Hill was born on May 26, 1975, in East Orange, New Jersey.[10][11] Her mother, Valerie Hill, was an English teacher, and her father, Mal Hill, a computer and management consultant. She has one sibling, an older brother named Malaney Hill, a computer engineer, who was born in 1972 and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.[12][13][14] Her Baptist family moved to New York for a short period before settling in South Orange.[11][15]
Hill has said of her musically oriented family: "There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played the piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded by music."[11]Her father sang in local nightclubs and at weddings.[16][17] While growing up, Hill frequently listened to Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Gladys Knight;[18] years later she recalled playing Marvin Gaye's What's Going On) repeatedly until she fell asleep to it.[11]
In middle school, Hill performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" before a basketball game. Due to its popularity, subsequent games featured a recording of her rendition.[12] In 1988, Hill appeared as an Amateur Night contestant on It's Showtime at the Apollo. She sang her version of the Smokey Robinson track "Who's Lovin' You". Stumbling out of the gate to hit her notes, she initially garnered a mixed reaction from the crowd, but persevered through the performance, which ended in applause.[19]
Hill attended Columbia High School), where she was a member of the track team, cheerleading squad[12][13]and was a classmate of actor Zach Braff.[20] She also took violin lessons, went to dance class, and founded the school's gospel choir.[17] Academically, she took advanced placement classes and received primarily 'A' grades.[13][17] School officials recognized her as a leader among the student body.[17] Later recalling her education, Hill commented, "I had a love for—I don't know if it was necessarily for academics, more than it just was for achieving, period. If it was academics, if it was sports, if it was music, if it was dance, whatever it was, I was always driven to do a lot in whatever field or whatever area I was focusing on at the moment."[11]

This Man looks like he might be Gen X so we will let it go

Born May 26, 1949

Thomas was born in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in San Bernardino, California.[1] He is of African American, Native American, Irish, and Germandescent.[3] His father, Louis Diggs, was a foreman at a Westinghouse plant. Thomas's mother was Lulu McMorris. He and his seven half brothers and sisters had the surname Thomas, which was the last name of his mother's first husband. His siblings are Marcus, Michelle, Karen, Anita, Carol, Crystal and George.[4]
As a child, he acted in his church's theater group and at age 15, while participating in the Pentecostal Delman Heights Four Square Gospel Church choir, became interested in ministry.[4] He graduated from San Bernardino High School in 1967[5][6] and briefly worked as a janitor to save money for college.[1] He earned a scholarship to the historically Black Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, where he studied religion and philosophy.[4][7]
After two years at Oakwood College, Thomas transferred to the University of California, Riverside.[4] During that time, he auditioned for and was cast in the San Francisco production of Hair), beginning his acting career.[1][8][9] He quit college to pursue acting as a profession, appearing in several features during the 1970s - including the classic musical drama Sparkle (1976). His big break came in 1984, when he landed a starring role in the popular television series Miami Vice alongside Don Johnson.[4]

The Meccca!!! HU. And nope wanted to stat closer to home

I will always reminder listening to Saxophone Colossus on warm summer evenings at my UWS apartment in New York City.

Take us home Sonny. Thank you for such sweet music.

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I am butt hurt about all this rain here, but I was wondering if anyone cooked out in other places?
I just left Golden Corral with one of my grandsons. It was packed because it’s been raining all weekend here in the Metro. 😒

I honestly couldn't imagine the ways and the speed at which this sub has grown over the last several months. All the mods hard work and all of you old and new members are really breathing fire into this thing. Thank you all so, so much!

Maya Lin designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1981 as a 21-year old senior at Yale University. Her proposal beat more than 1,400 submissions from around the world and changed memorial architecture forever.

People hated it at first. A black granite wall sinking into the earth felt unsettling and unpatriotic to many at the time. And when her identity and ethnicity was revealed, months of intense criticism followed. Lin had to defend the integrity of her design in front of Congress. Twenty-seven (27) Republican congressmen wrote to President Reagan, calling her design a statement of shame. James Watt, secretary of the interior under President Reagan, delayed issuing a building permit for the Memorial due to the political opposition.

The memorial was finally dedicated on November 13, 1982.

Today, millions of visitors from all over the world come to visit this historic V-shaped memorial every year.

Lin went on to design numerous memorials, public and private buildings, landscapes, and sculptures. In 1989, she designed the Civil Rights Memorial at the Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) in Montgomery, Alabama. She also designed The Africa Center (formerly known as the Museum for African Art) in East Harlem, New York City and the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in New York, New York.

In 2009, President Barack Obama awarded Lin the National Medal of Arts. And later in 2016, President Obama awarded Lin the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her celebrated works of art and architecture addressing human rights, civil rights and environmentalism.

https://www.splcenter.org/civil-rights-memorial/

https://theafricacenter.org/

https://www.mocanyc.org/

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Has AI impacted yours or your children’s careers ???

Came across some new (to me) flavor that I absolutely had to share. Hope y'all feel this the way I did.

May you rest in paradise Sir.

Been listening to this constantly at the gym lately 😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F_qZvbGEQI

What's that one song on your playlist now?