Feb 28, Black History Month

Feb 28, 2014 Black History Month


He was inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2003.
"Holds NHL record for longest undefeated streak by a goaltender in his first NHL Season with 23, holds record for most assists in a single seabon by a goaltender with 14, holds record for most games played by a goaltender in as ingle season with 79 and most consecutive appearances in a single season by a goaltender with 76. He won the stanley cup championship in
Stanley Cup championships in 1984, 85,87,88, 90 with the Edmonton Oilers and played for about nineteen years."*

*info from Wikipedia

 

Grant Fuhr

Feb 27 Black History Month

Feb 27, 2014 Black History Month


He starred in several movies and this is his character from I Am Legend.

Will Smith

Feb 26 Black History Month

Feb 26, 2014 Black History Month

 

 

She was the sassy maid on the television show, The Jeffersons and she played Mary on the television show 227, which was about residents living at that address.

 

 

Feb 25 Black History Month

The first African American baseball player to play in Major League Baseball

 

 

           Jackie Robinson

 

Feb 24 Black History Month

Feb 24 Black History Month

He played Tyr on the Sci- fi show Andromeda. I would always rush home for the 7pm show and then they switched the time to 4:30. 

Keith Hamilton Cobb

Feb 23 Black History Month

Feb 23, 2014 Black History Month


She starred in Clueless and Mo Money

Stacey Dash

Feb 22, Black History Month

Day 22 Black History Month

She is an award winner singer and actress.

                     Brandy

Feb 21 Black History Month

Feb 21, 2014 Black History Month


She is the first African American Woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress in the movie Monster Ball.  Here are the other parts that she has played in illustrious movie career.

Feb 20, Black History Month

Feb 20, 2014- Black History Month


Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".

Feb 19 Black History Month

Feb 19, 2014. Black History Month

Bad Boys

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence

Feb 18 Black History Month

Feb 18, 2014  Black History Month

The King of Pop

Feb 17,- Black History Month

Feb 17, 2014   Black History Month

Happy President's Day

Feb 16 Black History Month

Michael Jackson

Feb 15 Black History Month

 

 

She was the first African American woman to win an Oscar as Best Actress.

 

 

Halle Berry

Feb14 Happy Valentines Day

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

 

 

 

Rupaul Andre Charles, best known as simply RuPaul, is an American actor, drag queen, model author, recording artist, who first became widely known in the 1990s when he appeared in a wide variety of television programs, films, and musical albums.

Feb 13- Black History Month

Day 13 Black History Month

He was B. A. Baracus on the A- team and Clubber Lang in the  Rocky movies 

Mr. T

Feb 12- Black History Month

Day 12- Black History

He has notched up an impressive array of film and television appearances over the past 50+ years. He is easily best known to l film audiences as the roguish Lando Calrissians actor.  He  has appeared in Mahogany, The Take, Lady Sings the Blues, Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings, and  The Hit.

Billy Dee Williams

Feb 11- Black History Month

She was leader of the Underground Railroad. She delivered hundreds from slavery to freedom.

                   Harriet Tubman

Feb 10, 2014- Black History Month

Day 10- Black History Month



He is an American actor known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters film series.

Ernie Hudson

Feb 9, 2014- Black History Month

Day 9  Black History Month


He was the first black dracula and his name was Blacula.  He was played by William Marshall in 1972 and in 1974- Scream Blacula Scream. 

Feb 8- Black History Month

February 8

This person started as a child actor and appeared in the movie Cornbread Earl and Me.  He has appeared in other movies throughout his career and portray the Character Nolan in Predator. 

Feb. 7, Black History Month

Feb 7

Samuel Jackson has played in many movies.  He has alow played the action hero in some of these movies.  In this role, he plays Nick Fury.  This character is the "leading agent of the fictional espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D.  He also  an intermediary between the U.S. government or the United Nations and various superheroes. It is eventually revealed that Fury takes a special medication called the Infinity Formula that halted his aging and allows him to be active despite being nearly a century old."*



"Fury is a seasoned unarmed and armed combat expert, was a heavyweight boxer in the army, and holds a black belt inTae Kwon Do and a brown belt in Jiu Jitsu.
He is trained as a paratrooper, Ranger, a demolitions expert, vehicle specialist (including aircraft and seagoing vessels), and a Green Beret.  He wears a S.H.I.E.L.D. uniform made of 9-ply Kevlar (able to withstand ballistic impact up to .45 caliber bullets) and a Beta cloth(type C), a fire-resistant material, which has a kindling temperature of 1,700 °F (930 °C)."*


* info from Wikipedia

Feb 6- Black History Month

Bessie Coleman was the first African Amercian to hold a pilot license.  The doll came with a book that detailed her life.  The company that created the doll had created other historical dolls.

Feb 5- Black History Month

Feb 5-

Jean Michel Basquiat "was a Haitian-American artist. Basquiat first achieved notoriety as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti group who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the New York City during the late 1970s. By the 1980s he was exhibiting his Neo-expressionist and Primitivist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. Basquiat used social commentaryin his paintings as a 'springboard to deeper truths about the individual' ,as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism."*

"Basquiat's canon revolves around single heroic figures: athletes, prophets, warriors, cops, musicians, kings and the artist himself. In these images the head is often a central focus, topped by crowns, hats, and halos. In this way the intellect is emphasized, lifted up to notice, privileged over the body and the physicality of these figures (i.e. black men) commonly represent in the world."

— Kellie Jones, Lost in Translation: Jean-Michel in the (Re)Mix*

 

 

 

*info from Wikipedia

Feb 4 Black History Month

Diahann Carroll portrayed Julia on the television show of the same name.  She was the first African American woman to star in a role that was not a maid. She was the first to portray a nurse in the starring role.  This doll was created by Mattel  in 1968.  Over time her hair as oxidize to this red color.  It was originally black.

 

Feb 3. Black History Month

Congratulations to Russell Wilson for leading the Seattle Seahawks to a victory over the Broncos. He is the 2nd Black Quarterback to win the Superbowl. Doug Williams for the Washington Redskins  was the 1st.

Donovan McNabb, Kordell Stewart. Warren Moon, Michael Vick

Feb 2- Black History

The first African American model to appear on the cover of Vogue issue August 1974.

                    Beverly Johnson

Black History Month- Feb 1

Celebrate Black History Month with a look at the dolls and action figures that represent real life people and their achievements..
He played Tee Hee in the James Bond movie "Live and Let Dive"