There is a limited amount of information that we know about Sally-Tom, a trailblazing Black trans woman who was born in 1839, who is one of the first – if not the first – trans person in the history of the United States to have her gender recognized by the...
I am currently reading "Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album" by Book by Ken Caillat and Steve Stiefel, a recollection of the drama, drugs, make-ups, break-ups, partying, and band in-fighting that made one of the most iconic and...
Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864, Nellie Bly was known as an adventurous, bold and rebellious writer who supported her family after her father died. After she read an article by the "Quiet Observer" in the Pittsburgh Dispatch that labeled women who worked...
There are many trailblazing POC designers in the fashion industry – specifically Black people – who moved onward and upward in the art despite being in a white, male-dominated industry. This is especially relevant to Ann Lowe, a fashion designer who slayed the game...
Hollywood legend Steve McQueen is known for his iconic work in Hollywood and for being a handsome, complicated leading man with a storied past. But did you know he had a Filipino-American wife by the name of Neile Adams? Born on July 10, 1932, with a very...
Director Stan Lathan is known for helming pioneering TV series that paved the way for Black entertainment, including The Steve Harvey Show, Martin, Roc, Moesha, The Parkers, Amen, among others. He was a director for three seasons of the award-winning,...
When it comes to Prince protégé bands there's The Time, Vanity 6 (also Apollonia 6), The Family, and then there's the great purple one's often overlooked funk rock new wave project known as Mazarati. With The Revolution's bassist Brownmark as the producer of their...
Born in Seattle to Chinese immigrants during a time when anti-Chinese rhetoric was plaguing the country, Ruby Chow blazed many a trail for Asian Americans — especially Asian American women. In the late 1940s, she opened Ruby Chow's Restaurant in Seattle's Beacon...
The almighty algorithm put this video of legends Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt singing Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" on The Late Show with David Letterman on March 24, 1999: https://youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?si=H3DWnZoo7EZ4yoSx It's one of...
