Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026static.klipy.comPrince's Awkward Stare MemeALT: Prince's Awkward Stare Meme 060
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Dancer/choreographer/anthropologist Katherine Dunham with friend, circa 1950s. [📸: Life magazine] #BlackSkyOver50 021
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Moses 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 030
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s the first of October—Donny Hathaway’s 81st birth anniversary. #MusicSky #BlackSkyOver50 youtu.be/J73dbIXvpOc?...youtu.beI Know It's YouYouTube video by Donny Hathaway - Topic 041
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yesterday also marked the golden anniversary of the release of Earth, Wind & Fire’s SPIRIT LP. What a time to be alive. #MusicSky #BlackSkyOver50 031
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026[SOUND ON] Happy heavenly 87th to the mighty Marlena Shaw. #MusicSky #BlackSkyOver50 040
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Wait…the Department of Education is still a thing?!?? 001
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Islamophobic heads everywhere are exploding over this video. I love everything about this.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 000
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Richard Pryor, as a former Vietnam War POW, visits his stroke-recovering mother (played by Olivia Cole) in the overlooked and offbeat (for Pryor) drama SOME KIND OF HERO [Pressman, 1982]. Despite being cast as Pryor’s mother, Cole was nearly two full years younger than the comedic GOAT. #BlackSky 050
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026static.klipy.comMom DivaAlt: Diana Ross in dangly earrings saying “I am mother!” in GIF mode 020
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026*runs to laptop to scour bookstores for a copy*😆🙌🏾 131
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Sisters with voices, O.G. edition: Screengrab of The Jones Girls ascendant, early ‘70s. #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky 050
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Happy 45th B’Day. #Beyoncé #BlackSky #MusicSky 030
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“We didn’t need dialogue—we had faces.” Ali meets another greatest—silent screen legend Gloria Swanson—circa early ‘70s. #FilmSky #MuhammadAli 020
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The mnemonic HOMES that we used to remember the Great Lakes is now SHAME. Way to go, Cheeto…so on-brand. #LakeOntario 030
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Forget the trash headline and outlet it came from—that’s the portrait of my big brother @donaldformey executed by Barkley Hendricks in Jimmy Iovine’s office. [📸: New York Times via @dionnetheicon] #BlackSky #BlackSkyOver50 #ArtSky 030
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Eddie KANG!!! Very sad to learn of the death of veteran actor Michael Wright at the relatively early age of 70. May all of his loved ones be comforted by the fact that his sterling, fervent work will live forever. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky #RIP 1132
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026static.klipy.comJoan Crawford's Startled ReactionALT: Joan Crawford's Startled Reaction 020
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Another example of the Joan Crawford Template ™️ at work in shaping Diana Ross’ film persona. Left: LADY SINGS THE BLUES [Furie, 1972]. Right: PAID [Wood, 1930]. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky 160
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Actor and Johnson Publishing Company darling Suzette Harbin as Jet’s Beauty of the Week, 1 April 1954 issue. #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky 060
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Oh, I’ve had the DVD for years—it’s the book I’m salivating over! 010
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 13/08/2026“Eccentric dancer” Ethel Williams [center] flanked by two unidentified fellow chorines on a bill for the Ethel Waters revue, ca. 1920s. The open secret in showbiz circles was that Williams was the longtime romantic partner of Waters as well, which led folks to dub them “The Two Ethels.” #MusicSky 050
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Screengrab of Barbara-O Jones as the put-upon protagonist of Haile Gerima’s pivotal L.A. Rebellion feature BUSH MAMA (1979). #BlackSkyOver50 #FilmSky 020
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Saw this first-run in a theater with my dad. Good times. 010
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026She paved the way: Arlene Smith, the lead singer of the massively influential early R&B girl group The Chantels, joined the soprano section of the heavenly choir on July 29th at the age of 84. Thank you, and rest in melody and power. #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky #RIP 0110
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026CHOON! Love that two of the composers are Patti Austin and Peggy Lipton. 000
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 26/07/2026[SOUND ON] Happy 85 candles to a bonafide legend—Miss @darlenelovesings . #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky 1231
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 25/07/2026MANDINGO predates ROOTS: Onstott’s novel was released in ‘57, while Haley’s book dropped in ‘76. This film was released a full two years before the “Roots” miniseries aired. So it’s anachronistic to speak of “‘Roots’ clichés” in relationship to it. I will agree, however, that MANDINGO is pure trash. 110
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Megawattage: B.B. King, Carla Thomas, Godfrey Cambridge, and O’Kelly Isley, 1970. #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky #FilmSky 030
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I’m STILL shellshocked damn near 30 years later. Not one to revisit. 020
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Tamara Dobson opens a righteous can of whoopass on Shelley Winters on a lobby card for CLEOPATRA JONES [Starrett, 1973], which dropped in US theaters 53 years ago yesterday. #BlackSky #FilmSky 0146
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 12/07/2026[SWIPE] A valiant Minnie Riperton leaving it all on the stage near the end of her life. Today marks the 47th anniversary of her transition at the age of 31. [📸 from the inlay booklet of the 2-disc compilation “Petals: The Minnie Riperton Collection,” Capitol, 2001] #BlackSkyOver50 #MusicSky 1104
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 10/07/2026From behind the veil: Lena Horne’s landmark Show magazine cover story, September 1963. The article traces Horne’s evolution from MGM “pretty pony” to civil rights activist in a striking way after a recent series of jolting events in her life, Medgar Evers’ assassination among them. #BlackSkyOver50 060
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I’ve downloaded it but have yet to listen. Unpopular opinion, but I thought MADAME X was excellent. Can’t wait to hear this new set. 220
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Nothing new under the sun: 75 years earlier to the very day of the Swift-Kelce nuptials, gospel-rock-guitar foremother Sister Rosetta Tharpe married her third and final husband, manager Russell Morrison, before a ticketed crowd of 25,000 at DC’s Griffith Stadium, culminating in a commemorative LP. 1134
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Not that my partner and I referenced this movie last night or anything…😃 010
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Cute. Now do SpaceX outright stealing the election. 000
Crescresyall @crescresyall.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I wore the grooves off of this album as a ‘70s kid. It’s so well-produced, too—Robin Gibb did NOT come to play. 120
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