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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 13h

Eat it and learn the taste, goddamnit!!! The future is ours!!!! Congratulations, Mayor-Elect Mamdani!!!
#Zohran #NYC

Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 2d

Remembering Stephanie Johnson, b/k/a Tanqueray, the NYC-based exotic dancer with a story to tell who gained widespread recognition later in life via a Humans of New York photo exhibit. She passed away 3 weeks ago at the age of 81 after a severe stroke. #BlackSkyOver50

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 4d

Hep Kitt: Cab Calloway and Eartha at the premiere of her film NEW FACES, 1953. [📸: The New York Age]

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 4d

A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif.

a woman is standing in front of a table with knives and the words so you wanna play with knives huh

ALT: a woman is standing in front of a table with knives and the words so you wanna play with knives huh

media.tenor.com

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 6d

“I’m tired. I’m tired. I’m tired. I’m tired.” Kaycee Moore and Nate Hardman explode in Billy Woodberry’s L.A. Film School masterpiece BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS [1984]. #BlackFilmSky #FilmSky #BlackSkyOver50

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 8d

Belated happy birthday wishes to actor/author/sportscaster Jayne Kennedy Overton, seen here in a screengrab from the Smokey-Robinson-exec-produced crime caper BIG TIME [Georgias, 1977]. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 14d

How cool is that?🤩

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 15d

Natural selection.😂😂😂

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 18d

“Fly Like a Bird,” full stop. Her finest hour.

nai THEE black barbie 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 19d

18. What is your favorite song off this album?

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 19d

😂😂😂

Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 19d

I thought it was on Roku.

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 23d

Good LORD, I wasn’t ready. It was ALL ABOUT EVE meets THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY meets THE ELEPHANT MAN meets THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. And in a brilliant way.😃

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 27d

Rhetta Hughes as Margaret Alexander in the Broadway musical adaptation of James Baldwin’s THE AMEN CORNER. Although this production stalled after 28 performances, the dynamic Miss Hughes still snagged a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Musical Role. #BlackSkyOver50 #BroadwaySky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 29d

SCHOOL DAZE.

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Oct 5

A bridge (club) too far: [L-R] Clarice Taylor, Arthur French, Esther Rolle and Frances Foster in Barbara and Carlton Molette’s one-act underbelly-of-the-Black-bourgeoisie play “Rosalee Pritchett,” St. Mark’s Playhouse, 1971. #BlackSkyOver50 #TheatreSky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Oct 3

I knew we would be next. Chicago and Black America, stay up.

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 30

Can you dig it?: In 1976, Fitzgerald Publications launched the “Fast Willie Jackson” comic book series, which was essentially Archie and the gang dipped in chocolate and caramel “soul” clichés. The series had seven issues. #BlackSkyOver50 #ComicsSky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 29

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre as a kid.

Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 25

Richard Pryor and Lonette McKee during a break in filming WHICH WAY IS UP? [Schultz, 1977], Pryor’s uproarious take on the Lina Wertmuller classic THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI. #FilmSky #BlackFilmSky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 24

Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice
Luscious Brown Jackson

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 17

Lady Bo: Peggy Jones (1940-2015), “The Queen Mother of Guitar,” widely believed to be the first female guitarist in a highly visible band (Bo Diddley). #MusicSky #BlackMusicSky #BlackSkyOver50

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 16

Poster for the early Clifton Davis vehicle TOGETHER FOR DAYS [alternatively titled BLACK CREAM] [Michael Schultz, 1972], a film about a Black Power activist romantically drawn to a white woman. Fun fact: This was also the feature film debut of one Samuel L. Jackson. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 15

What y’all know about “Bronze Thrills”? Broadway star Bertice Reading on its September 1954 cover. #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky #BlackMusicSky #BroadwaySky

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 15

She’s always been magnificent. I most recently had the great good fortune to see her sing “Somewhere” in person at Roberta Flack’s memorial service.😭

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Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · Sep 13

The Supreme