The 1973 concert film/documentary, Wattstax, documented a 1972 concert in Los Angeles featuring some of the largest acts in soul music.
Before he was Gordon on Sesame Street, Roscoe Orman portrayed a pimp named Willie Dynamite in the film of the same name.
Morgan Freeman’s take on real life school principal Joe Clark in the 1989 film Lean On Me helped propel Freeman to Hollywood stardom.
When Robert Townsend’s Hollywood Shuffle was released in 1987, it was a hard time for African-American actors in Tinseltown.
It’s kinda hard to believe that Bernie Mac’s been gone for two years already.