Dancer/choreographer/anthropologist Katherine Dunham with friend, circa 1950s. [📸: Life magazine] #BlackSkyOver50

Moses Gunn and Madge Sinclair as the title characters in a production of Athol Fugard’s scathing play BOESMAN AND LENA, Los Angeles Theatre Center, 4 January 1986. [📸: Jose Galvez, Los Angeles Times] #BlackSkyOver50

It’s the first of October—Donny Hathaway’s 81st birth anniversary. #MusicSky #BlackSkyOver50

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Yesterday also marked the golden anniversary of the release of Earth, Wind & Fire’s SPIRIT LP. What a time to be alive. #MusicSky #BlackSkyOver50

"What's Love Got To Do With It?" released 23 years ago, but Angela had those biceps and those knees then and STILL has 'em now. She even got low in the Spirit Tunnel. youtube.com/shorts/9iEpW... #blackskyover50 #blackskyover40 #blackskyover60

I NEVER do that "she looks __ yrs old" but 68? FR?

Shamontiel wrote "Is ‘text me when you get home’ invasive or the norm for ‘80s babies? ~ How smartphones have changed communication in Black social circles" idoseecolor.substack.com/p/im-home-ca... #blackskyover40 #blackskyover50 #blackskyover30 #techsky

[SOUND ON] Happy heavenly 87th to the mighty Marlena Shaw. #MusicSky #BlackSkyOver50

Sisters with voices, O.G. edition: Screengrab of The Jones Girls ascendant, early ‘70s. #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky