aqualung
I wear a crown of curls.
WHAT???U can read every single Ebony and Jet on google books
Great read btw
YOU SAID WHAT NOW?!?
black magazines from back in the day are avail online AND Y'ALL DIDN'T TELL ME NOTHIN'!!!
1967 1967 Ebony Magazine Article about Frankie Lymon
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YOU SAID WHAT NOW?!?
black magazines from back in the day are avail online AND Y'ALL DIDN'T TELL ME NOTHIN'!!!
aqualung
I wear a crown of curls.
Claude Brown demonstrated this in Manchild in the Promised Land.
It's a wonder that ANY minority boys and men escaped alive. Social programs were lacking; drug use was on the rise; Civil Rights were few; new black folk arrived in Harlem from the south DAILY; birth control was rudimentary/illegal; and undervalued minority kids got lost in the urban shuffle.
But...gun fights were less frequent. Fists and knives were still relied upon by hoodlums. Hip hop/rap culture hadn't happened yet. White oppression mandated more black unity then than now. Perhaps the clouds had silver lining even in those bad old days?
Its crazy when you think about. It just proves the actual environment comes first, not no damn music or that other bullshyt.
Just to put in perspective how much worse harlem in the 50s was worst than hoods today.
In 2011, Englewood was the most dangerous neighborhood in the USA, slightly edging watts in LA.
Englewood had over 30 murders, enough to put it at number 1. But that pales in comparrison to 50s harlem which had 100 murders damn near every year.
aqualung
I wear a crown of curls.
How is a 1967 Ebony article gonna extol the "love making" prowess of a 15yo Frankie Lymon. That was child molestation!
Frankie mentioned a black male child star from the 1940s, Sugar Chile Robinson.
This kid was playing and singing for tv/movie cameras at age 6 and 7! Look at his little fingers and fists banging the keys with rhythm AND precision. Dude later became a psychologist. 0_o
Frank "Sugar Chile Robinson" with Count Basie - YouTube
The lyrics of this "Caldonia" song were FOR ADULT VIEWERS. This baby boy is just singin' and smilin' along. I can't... X_x
Frankie mentioned a black male child star from the 1940s, Sugar Chile Robinson.
This kid was playing and singing for tv/movie cameras at age 6 and 7! Look at his little fingers and fists banging the keys with rhythm AND precision. Dude later became a psychologist. 0_o
Frank "Sugar Chile Robinson" with Count Basie - YouTube
The lyrics of this "Caldonia" song were FOR ADULT VIEWERS. This baby boy is just singin' and smilin' along. I can't... X_x
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aqualung
I wear a crown of curls.
Back then, cops weren't NEARLY as concerned about enforcing the law in...certain neighborhoods as they are/aren't now. Convictions were iffy, even when EVERYbody knew who done it.
Or so I have read.
Back then, cops weren't NEARLY as concerned about enforcing the law in...certain neighborhoods as they are/aren't now. Convictions were iffy, even when EVERYbody knew who done it.
Or so I have read.
That makes sense too.
I cant imagine no LA riots type shyt happening now days. Not because nikkas aint just as ignorant now, but because police dont play that shyt no more.
aqualung
I wear a crown of curls.
Ha ha! After I sent the link to friends and family, a classmate informed me that she descended from Frankie Lymon's sibling. :-P (Same fat cabbage-patch-doll cheeks and high-gloss black hair as him, now that I consider it.)
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Them old ass magazine ads!
Articles from late 64/early 65 about the life and mysterious death of Sam Cooke
Ebony - Google Books
Jet - Google Books
scroll up a bit on both of the articles
Ebony - Google Books
Jet - Google Books
scroll up a bit on both of the articles
Looking through the Jet magazine one of the articles mentioned George Romney. No big deal or anything, I just found that interesting.
They got the jet beauties of the week? 