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268 relations: 'Deed I Do, A Different World, Activism, Adelaide Hall, Adelphi Theatre, African Americans, African-American upper class, Albert Ammons, Alicia Keys, Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles), American Broadcasting Company, American Masters, An Evening with Lena Horne, Arcadia Publishing, Artie Shaw, Associated Press, Audra McDonald, Ava Gardner, Barbra Streisand, BBC, Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Being Myself (Lena Horne album), Billie Holiday, Billy Eckstine, Billy Strayhorn, Black & White Records, Blacklisting, Blue Note Records, Boogie-Woogie Dream, Boys and Girls High School, Broadway Rhythm, Broadway theatre, Buddah Records, Cab Calloway, Cabin in the Sky (film), Café Society, Calypso music, Carnegie Hall, Carol Lawrence, Charlie Barnet, Chelsea Bridge (song), Chicago Sun-Times, Chita Rivera, Cicely Tyson, Civil and political rights, Civil rights movement, Communism, Cotton Club, Count Basie, Death of a Gunfighter, ..., Decca Records, Delta Sigma Theta, Democratic Party (United States), Diahann Carroll, Dinah Shore, Dionne Warwick, Dubbing (music), Duchess of Idaho, Duets II (Frank Sinatra album), Duke Ellington, Ebony (magazine), Eleanor Powell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ella Fitzgerald, Embraceable You, Essence (magazine), European Americans, Fats Waller, Feelin' Good (Lena Horne album), Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, Georgia, Frank Sinatra, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gábor Szabó, Gene Kelly, Georgia (U.S. state), Girls' High School, Give the Lady What She Wants, Glinda the Good Witch, Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group, Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Halle Berry, Harlem, Harry & Lena, Harry Belafonte, Harry Warren, Heart failure, Hill District (Pittsburgh), Hollywood, Hollywood blacklist, Howard University, Hugh Martin, I Dood It, International Civil Rights Walk of Fame, Interracial marriage, It's Love (album), Jackson, Mississippi, Jake Cannavale, Jamaica (musical), Janet Jackson, Jenny Lumet, Jessye Norman, Jim Clark (sheriff), Joe Louis, Joe Williams (jazz singer), Joffrey Ballet, John C. Calhoun, John F. Kennedy, John F. 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Scottron, Sands Hotel and Casino, Sanford and Son, Saul Chaplin, Seasons of a Life, Selma, Alabama, Sesame Street, Show Boat, Sidney Lumet, Simon Rattle, Skye Records, Society of Singers, Something to Live For (song), Songs by Burke and Van Heusen, Soul (Lena Horne album), Soundies, Spingarn Medal, St. Albans, Queens, Stockholm, Stormy Weather (1943 film), Stormy Weather (Lena Horne album), Stormy Weather (song), Strange Frame, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Sunset Strip, Super Bowl XXXVIII, Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy, Suspense (radio drama), Swing Fever, Teddy Wilson, That's Entertainment! 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'Deed I Do
"'Deed I Do" is a 1926 jazz standard composed by Fred Rose with lyrics by Walter Hirsch.
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A Different World
A Different World is an American sitcom (and a spin-off of The Cosby Show) that aired for six seasons on NBC from September 24, 1987 to July 9, 1993.
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Activism
Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.
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Adelaide Hall
Adelaide Louise Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American–born UK–based jazz singer and entertainer.
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Adelphi Theatre
The Adelphi Theatre is a London West End theatre, located on the Strand in the City of Westminster.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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African-American upper class
The African-American upper class consists of African-American engineers, lawyers, accountants, doctors, politicians, business executives, venture capitalists, CEOs, celebrities, entertainers, entrepreneurs and heirs who have incomes amounting to $200,000 or more.
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Albert Ammons
Albert Clifton Ammons (March 1, 1907 – December 3, 1949) was an American pianist and player of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style popular from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s.
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Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter.
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Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)
The Ambassador Hotel was a hotel in Los Angeles, California, and location of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub until it was demolished in 2005.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.
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American Masters
American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and those who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
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An Evening with Lena Horne
An Evening with Lena Horne is a 1994 live album by Lena Horne.
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Arcadia Publishing
Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher of neighborhood, local, and regional history of the United States in pictorial form.
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Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw (born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004) was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and actor.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Audra McDonald
Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is a German-born American actress and singer.
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Ava Gardner
Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress and singer.
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Barbra Streisand
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Bedford–Stuyvesant (colloquially known as Bed–Stuy and Bedford-Stuy) is a neighborhood of 153,000 inhabitants in the north central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
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Being Myself (Lena Horne album)
Being Myself is a 1998 studio album by Lena Horne, and was the final original studio album released during her lifetime.
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Billie Holiday
Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.
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Billy Eckstine
William Clarence Eckstine (July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993) was an American jazz and pop singer, and a bandleader of the swing era.
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Billy Strayhorn
William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington, lasting nearly three decades.
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Black & White Records
Black & White Records was an American record company and label that was founded by Les Schreiber in 1943.
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Blacklisting
Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority, compiling a blacklist (or black list) of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as not being acceptable to those making the list.
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Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records.
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Boogie-Woogie Dream
Boogie-Woogie Dream (1944) is an independently made short film musical, directed by Hanus Burger, starring Lena Horne, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Teddy Wilson and his orchestra.
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Boys and Girls High School
Boys and Girls High School, the oldest public high school in Brooklyn, is a comprehensive high school in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, United States.
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Broadway Rhythm
Broadway Rhythm (1944) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor musical film.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.
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Buddah Records
Buddah Records (later known as Buddha Records) was an American record label founded in 1967 in New York City.
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Cab Calloway
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.
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Cabin in the Sky (film)
Cabin in the Sky is a 1943 American musical film based on the 1940 Broadway musical of the same name.
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Café Society
Café Society was a New York City nightclub open from 1938 to 1948 at Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village, and managed by Barney Josephson.
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Calypso music
Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and eventually spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.
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Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.
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Carol Lawrence
Carol Lawrence (born September 5, 1932) is an American actress, most often associated with musical theatre, but who has also appeared extensively on television.
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Charlie Barnet
Charles Daly Barnet (October 26, 1913 – September 4, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.
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Chelsea Bridge (song)
"Chelsea Bridge" (1941) is an impressionistic jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera (born January 23, 1933) is an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theatre.
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Cicely Tyson
Cicely L.Tyson (born December 19, 1924) is an American actress and former fashion model.She is best known for playing strong African-American women on screen and stage throughout her career, she is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards, four Black Reel Awards, one Screen Actor Guild Award and one Tony Award.
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Civil and political rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Communism
In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
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Cotton Club
The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub located in Harlem on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1935, then briefly in the midtown Theater District from 1936 to 1940.
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Count Basie
William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.
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Death of a Gunfighter
Death of a Gunfighter is a 1969 Western film.
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Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.
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Delta Sigma Theta
Delta Sigma Theta (ΔΣΘ; sometimes abbreviated Deltas or DST) is a Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women dedicated to public service with an emphasis on programs that target the African American community.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).
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Diahann Carroll
Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diahann Johnson, July 17, 1935) is an American television and stage actress, singer and model known for her performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones (1954) and Porgy and Bess (1959) as well as on Broadway.
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Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore (born Fannye Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s.
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Dionne Warwick
Marie Dionne Warwick (born December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress and television show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health.
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Dubbing (music)
In sound recording, dubbing is the transfer or copying of previously recorded audio material from one medium to another of the same or a different type.
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Duchess of Idaho
Duchess of Idaho is a musical romantic comedy produced in 1950 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Duets II (Frank Sinatra album)
Duets II is the 59th and last studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.
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Ebony (magazine)
Ebony is a monthly magazine for the African-American market.
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Eleanor Powell
Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982) was an American dancer and actress.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat and activist.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella.
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Embraceable You
"Embraceable You" is a popular jazz song, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
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Essence (magazine)
Essence is a monthly magazine for African-American women between the ages of 18 and 49.
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European Americans
European Americans (also referred to as Euro-Americans) are Americans of European ancestry.
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Fats Waller
Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.
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Feelin' Good (Lena Horne album)
Feelin' Good is a 1965 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Ray Ellis.
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Fort Valley State University
Fort Valley State University (FVSU) is a historically black university (HBCU) in Fort Valley, Georgia.
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Fort Valley, Georgia
Fort Valley is a city in and the county seat of Peach County, Georgia, United States.
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Gábor Szabó
Gábor István Szabó (March 8, 1936 – February 26, 1982) was a Hungarian American guitarist whose style incorporated jazz, pop, rock, and Hungarian music.
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Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor of film, stage, and television, singer, film director, producer, and choreographer.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.
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Girls' High School
Girls High School is a historically and architecturally notable public secondary school building located at 475 Nostrand Avenue in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
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Give the Lady What She Wants
Give the Lady What She Wants is a 1958 studio album by Lena Horne, with Lennie Hayton and His Orchestra.
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Glinda the Good Witch
Glinda, also known as the Good Witch of the South, is a fictional character created by L. Frank Baum in his Oz novels.
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Grammy Award
A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.
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Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance was a Grammy Award recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959.
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Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works (songs or albums) in the vocal jazz music genre.
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Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group was presented from 1981 to 1990.
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Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album
The Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album has been awarded since 1959.
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Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by The Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording." This award is distinct from the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, which honors specific recordings rather than individuals, and the Grammy Trustees Award, which honors non-performers.
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Halle Berry
Halle Maria Berry (born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress.
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Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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Harry & Lena
Harry & Lena is a 1970 studio album by Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne.
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Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and social activist.
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Harry Warren
Harry Warren (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and lyricist.
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Heart failure
Heart failure (HF), often referred to as congestive heart failure (CHF), is when the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs.
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Hill District (Pittsburgh)
The Hill District is a historic black collection of neighborhoods in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.
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Hollywood blacklist
The Hollywood blacklist - as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generally known - was the practice of denying employment to screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other American entertainment professionals during the mid-20th century because they were accused of having Communist ties or sympathies.
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Howard University
Howard University (HU or simply Howard) is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university (HBCU) in Washington, D.C. It is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with higher research activity and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
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Hugh Martin
Hugh Martin (August 11, 1914 – March 11, 2011) was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright.
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I Dood It
I Dood It (UK title By Hook or by Crook) is a 1943 American musical-comedy film starring Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell, directed by Vincente Minnelli, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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International Civil Rights Walk of Fame
The International Civil Rights Walk of Fame, which honors some of the activists involved in the Civil Rights Movement and others involved in civil rights activities, was created in 2004 and is located at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta.
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Interracial marriage
Interracial marriage is a form of marriage outside a specific social group (exogamy) involving spouses who belong to different socially-defined races or racialized ethnicities.
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It's Love (album)
It's Love is a 1955 studio album by Lena Horne, released by RCA Victor in monophonic in 1955, Horne's debut album for the company, and her first complete studio album.
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Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital city and largest urban center of the U.S. state of Mississippi.
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Jake Cannavale
Jake Lumet Cannavale (born May 1, 1995) is an American musician and theatre and television actor.
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Jamaica (musical)
Jamaica is a musical with a book by Yip Harburg and Fred Saidy, lyrics by Harburg, and music by Harold Arlen.
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Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress.
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Jenny Lumet
Jenny Lumet (born February 2, 1967) is an American actress and screenwriter.
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Jessye Norman
Jessye Mae Norman (born September 15, 1945) is an American opera singer and recitalist.
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Jim Clark (sheriff)
James Gardner Clark, Jr. (September 17, 1922 – June 4, 2007), AP via MSNBC, June 6, 2007 was the sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama, from 1955 to 1966.
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Joe Louis
Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981), best known as Joe Louis and nicknamed the "Brown Bomber", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951.
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Joe Williams (jazz singer)
Joe Williams (born Joseph Goreed; December 12, 1918 – March 29, 1999) was an American jazz singer.
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Joffrey Ballet
The Joffrey Ballet is a professional dance company resident in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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John C. Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina, and the seventh Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally called the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., named in 1964 as a memorial to President John F. Kennedy.
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John Moran Bailey
John Moran Bailey (November 23, 1904 – April 10, 1975) was an American politician who played a major role in promoting the New Deal coalition of the Democratic Party and its liberal policy positions.
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Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian.
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Kidney disease
Kidney disease, or renal disease, also known as nephropathy, is damage to or disease of a kidney.
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Kraft Music Hall
The Kraft Music Hall was a popular old-time radio variety program, featuring top show business entertainers, which aired first on NBC radio from 1933 to 1949.
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Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks.
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Lena & Gabor
Lena & Gabor is an album by American vocalist Lena Horne and Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó, arranged and produced by Gary McFarland.
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Lena & Michel
Lena & Michel is a 1975 album by Lena Horne, arranged by Michel Legrand.
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Lena Horne at the Sands
Lena Horne at the Sands is a 1961 live album by Lena Horne, her second live recording released by RCA Victor.
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Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria
Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria is a 1957 live album by Lena Horne, conducted by Lennie Hayton, recorded in Stereo at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on the evening of February 20, 1957.
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Lena Horne Sings Your Requests
Lena Sings Your Requests is a 1963 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Bob Florence and Marty Paich.
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Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music was a 1981 Broadway musical revue, written for and starring American singer and actress Lena Horne.
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Lena in Hollywood
Lena in Hollywood is a 1966 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Ray Ellis.
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Lena Like Latin
Lena Like Latin (Lena Goes Latin) is a 1963 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Shorty Rogers and Marty Paich.
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Lena on the Blue Side
Lena on the Blue Side is a 1962 studio album by Lena Horne, released by RCA Victor in stereo and monoaural in February 1962, recording took place in New York in the summer of 1961.
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Lena...Lovely and Alive
Lena...Lovely and Alive is a 1962 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Marty Paich and featuring trumpeter Jack Sheldon.
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Lena: A New Album
Lena: A New Album is a 1976 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Robert Farnon.
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Lennie Hayton
Leonard George "Lennie" Hayton (February 14, 1908 – April 24, 1971) was an American musician, composer, conductor and arranger.
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Leontyne Price
Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano.
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Leslie Uggams
Leslie Marian Uggams (born May 25, 1943) is an American actress and singer.
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Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress and singer.
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Love Me or Leave Me (Donaldson and Kahn song)
"Love Me or Leave Me" is a popular song written in 1928 by Walter Donaldson with lyrics by Gus Kahn.
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Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (12 October 19356 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time.
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Lynching in the United States
Lynching is the practice of murder by a group by extrajudicial action.
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Mack Gordon
Mack Gordon (born Morris Gittler, June 21, 1904 – February 28, 1959) was a Jewish-American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film.
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Macon, Georgia
Macon, officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county located in the state of Georgia, United States.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963.
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McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
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Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist in Mississippi and the state's field secretary of the NAACP.
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Meet Me in Las Vegas
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) is an MGM musical comedy produced by Joe Pasternak, directed by Roy Rowland, filmed in Eastman Color (credited as Metrocolor) and CinemaScope, and starring Dan Dailey and Cyd Charisse.
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Merry from Lena
Merry from Lena is a 1966 album by Lena Horne.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.
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Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand (born 24 February 1932) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist.
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Miscegenation
Miscegenation (from the Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, or procreation.
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Motion Picture Production Code
The Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral guidelines that was applied to most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968.
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Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.
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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.
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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist
This page lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist.
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National Council of Negro Women
The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) is a non-profit organization with the mission to advance the opportunities and the quality of life for African-American women, their families and communities.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.
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Nature's Baby
Nature's Baby is a 1971 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Ray Ellis.
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Nederlander Organization
The Nederlander Organization, founded in 1912 by David T. Nederlander in Detroit, and currently based in New York City, is one of the largest operators of legitimate theatres and music venues in the United States.
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Nederlander Theatre
The David T. Nederlander Theatre (formerly the Billy Rose Theatre and National Theatre, commonly shortened to the Nederlander Theatre) is a 1,232-seat Broadway theater located at 208 West 41st Street, in New York City.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nightclub
A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.
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Nightclub act
A nightclub act is a production, usually of nightclub music or comedy, designed for performance at a nightclub, a type of drinking establishment, by a nightclub performer such as a nightclub singer or nightclub dancer, whose performance may also be referred to as a nightclub act.
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Noble Sissle
Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) was an African-American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921), and its hit song I'm Just Wild About Harry.
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Non-denominated postage
Non-denominated postage is postage intended to meet a certain postage rate that retains full validity for that intended postage rate even after the rate is increased.
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One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
"One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" is a hit song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the movie musical The Sky's the Limit (1943) and first performed in the film by Fred Astaire.
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.
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Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.
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Pal Joey (musical)
Pal Joey is a musical with a book by John O'Hara and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
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Panama Hattie
Panama Hattie is a 1940 American musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Herbert Fields and B. G. DeSylva.
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Pasadena Playhouse
The Pasadena Playhouse is a historic performing arts venue located 39 S. El Molino Avenue in Pasadena, California, United States.
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Paul Robeson
Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political activism.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Peggy Lee
Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, in a career spanning six decades.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1913 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality.
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Pete Johnson
Pete Johnson (born Kermit H. Johnson, March 25, 1904 – March 23, 1967) was an American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the "PG", is the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Playbill
Playbill is a monthly U.S. magazine for theatregoers.
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Porgy and Bess (Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne album)
Porgy and Bess is an album by Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne, released by RCA Victor in 1959.
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Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.
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Qwest Records
Qwest Records is the American record label started by Quincy Jones in 1980 as a joint venture with Warner Bros. Records, and owned by Warner Music Group, although Jones was still under contract with A&M Records through 1981.
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Rachel Getting Married
Rachel Getting Married is a 2008 drama film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin and Debra Winger.
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Racial segregation
Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.
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Ralph Blane
Ralph Blane (July 26, 1914 – November 13, 1995) was an American composer, lyricist, and performer.
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Ralph Cooper
Ralph Cooper (January 16, 1908 – August 4, 1992), was an American actor, screenwriter, dancer and choreographer.
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RCA Records
RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
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Richard Adler
Richard Adler (August 3, 1921 – June 21, 2012) was an American lyricist, writer, composer and producer of several Broadway shows.
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Richard Schickel
Richard Warren Schickel (February 10, 1933 – February 18, 2017) was an American film historian, journalist, author, documentarian, and film and literary critic.
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Robert Osborne
Robert Jolin Osborne (May 3, 1932 – March 6, 2017) was an American actor, film historian, television presenter, and author, best known for more than twenty years as the primary host of the cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
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Sammy Cahn
Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician.
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Sammy Davis Jr.
Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, musician, dancer, actor and comedian.
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Samuel R. Scottron
Samuel Raymond Scottron (February 1841 - 1905) was a prominent African-American inventor from Brooklyn, N.Y. who began his career as a barber.
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Sands Hotel and Casino
The Sands Hotel and Casino was a historic hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, United States, that operated from 1952 to 1996.
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Sanford and Son
Sanford and Son is an American sitcom that ran on the NBC television network from January 14, 1972, to March 25, 1977.
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Saul Chaplin
Saul Chaplin (February 19, 1912 – November 15, 1997) was an American composer and musical director.
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Seasons of a Life
Seasons of a Life was the last album by American vocalist Lena Horne.
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Selma, Alabama
Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west.
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Sesame Street
Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.
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Show Boat
Show Boat is a musical in two acts, with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on Edna Ferber's best-selling novel of the same name.
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Sidney Lumet
Sidney Arthur Lumet (June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit.
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Simon Rattle
Sir Simon Denis Rattle (born 19 January 1955) is an English conductor.
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Skye Records
Skye Records was a music label formed in early 1968 by vibraphonist Cal Tjader, guitarist Gábor Szabó, musician Gary McFarland, and music executive Norman Schwartz.
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Society of Singers
Society of Singers, known as "SOS" is the only nonprofit 501(c)3 charitable organization devoted exclusively to helping professional singers.
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Something to Live For (song)
"Something to Live For" is a 1939 jazz composition by Billy Strayhorn.
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Songs by Burke and Van Heusen
Songs by Burke and Van Heusen is a 1959 studio album by Lena Horne, of songs written by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen.
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Soul (Lena Horne album)
Soul is a 1966 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Ray Ellis.
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Soundies
Soundies were three-minute American musical 16mm films, produced in New York City, Chicago, and Hollywood, between 1940 and 1946, each containing a song, dance and/or band or orchestral number.
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Spingarn Medal
The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for outstanding achievement by an African American.
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St. Albans, Queens
St.
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Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.
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Stormy Weather (1943 film)
Stormy Weather is a 1943 American musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox.
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Stormy Weather (Lena Horne album)
Stormy Weather is a 1957 studio album by Lena Horne, released by RCA Victor in monophonic.
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Stormy Weather (song)
"Stormy Weather" is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler.
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Strange Frame
Strange Frame: Love & Sax (often referred to as simply Strange Frame) is a 2012 American romantic science fiction comedy-drama film directed by G. B. Hajim and written by Hajim and Shelley Doty.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced) was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s.
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Sunset Strip
Sunset Strip is the mile-and-a-half (2.4 km) stretch of Sunset Boulevard that passes through West Hollywood, California, United States.
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Super Bowl XXXVIII
Super Bowl XXXVIII was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Carolina Panthers and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2003 season.
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Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy
Super Bowl XXXVIII – which was broadcast live on February 1, 2004 from Houston, Texas on the CBS television network in the United States – was noted for a controversial halftime show in which Janet Jackson's breast, adorned with a nipple shield, was exposed by Justin Timberlake for about half a second, in what was later referred to as a "wardrobe malfunction".
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Suspense (radio drama)
Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1942 through 1962.
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Swing Fever
Swing Fever is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by Tim Whelan.
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Teddy Wilson
Theodore Shaw Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist.
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That's Entertainment! III
That's Entertainment! III is a 1994 documentary film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate the studio's 70th anniversary.
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The Andy Williams Show
The Andy Williams Show was an American television variety show that ran from 1962 to 1971 (alternating during the summer of 1970 with Andy Williams Presents Ray Stevens), and a short-lived run in syndication, beginning in the fall of 1976.
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Bell Telephone Hour
The Bell Telephone Hour (also known as The Telephone Hour) is a concert series which began April 29, 1940, on NBC Radio and was heard on NBC until June 30, 1958.
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The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street is a musical variety radio program which began on the Blue Network in 1940.
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The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984, until April 30, 1992.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Dean Martin Show
The Dean Martin Show, not to be confused with the Dean Martin Variety Show (1959–1960), was a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes.
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The Duke Is Tops
The Duke Is Tops is a 1938 American musical film released by Million Dollar Productions and directed by William Nolte.
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The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.
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The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.
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The Flip Wilson Show
The Flip Wilson Show is an hour-long variety show that originally aired in the U.S. on NBC from September 17, 1970 to June 27, 1974.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Hollywood Palace
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly (generally on Saturday nights) on ABC from January 4, 1964, to February 7, 1970.
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The Judy Garland Show
The Judy Garland Show is an American musical variety television series that aired on CBS on Sunday nights during the 1963–1964 television season.
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The Men in My Life
The Men in My Life is a 1988 studio album by Lena Horne, featuring Horne in duet with Joe Williams and Sammy Davis, Jr..
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The Muppet Show
The Muppet Show is a family-oriented comedy-variety television series that was produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and features The Muppets.
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The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to simply Oprah, is an American syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986 to May 25, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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The Wiz (film)
The Wiz is a 1978 American musical adventure film produced by Universal Pictures and Motown Productions, and released by Universal Pictures on October 24, 1978.
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Thousands Cheer
Thousands Cheer is a 1943 American comedy musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Till the Clouds Roll By
Till The Clouds Roll By is a 1946 American Technicolor musical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is a retired American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician.
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Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.
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Tony Bennett
Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz.
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Traditional pop music
Traditional pop (also classic pop or pop standards) is music that was recorded or performed after the Big Band era and before the advent of rock music.
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Trocadero (Los Angeles)
Cafe Trocadero was an upscale nightclub that opened on the Sunset Strip in 1934 and immediately became the place where Hollywood stars went to be seen.
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Two Girls and a Sailor
Two Girls and a Sailor is a 1944 musical film about two singing sisters who are helped to set up a canteen to entertain soldiers by a mysterious wealthy admirer.
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United Artists
United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.
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United Artists Records
United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 to issue movie soundtracks.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Vanessa Williams
Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963) is an American actress, singer and fashion designer.
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Variety (magazine)
Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Vic Damone
Vic Damone (born Vito Rocco Farinola; June 12, 1928 – February 11, 2018) was an American traditional pop and big band singer, actor, radio and television presenter, and entertainer.
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Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Gigi (1958), The Band Wagon (1953), and An American in Paris (1951).
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Vocal jazz
Vocal jazz or jazz singing is an instrumental approach to the voice, where the singer can match the instruments in their stylistic approach to the lyrics, improvised or otherwise, or through scat singing; that is, the use of non-morphemic syllables to imitate the sound of instruments.
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Waldorf Astoria New York
The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros.
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We'll Be Together Again (album)
We'll Be Together Again is a 1994 album by Lena Horne.
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What's My Line?
What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, with several international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.
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Words and Music (1948 film)
Words and Music is a 1948 film loosely based on the creative partnership of the composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Ziegfeld Follies (film)
Ziegfeld Follies is a 1945 American musical-comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and directed by Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, Merrill Pye, George Sidney, and Charles Walters.
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20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.
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20th Century Fox Records
20th Century Fox Records, also known as 20th Fox Records and 20th Century Records, was a wholly owned subsidiary of film studio 20th Century Fox.
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83rd Academy Awards
The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2010 in the United States and took place on February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST (8:30 p.m. EST).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Horne
