May 16, 2012 by 16stone
Sylvia Robinson, is credited with being the mother of hip hop music. Sylvia was the founder of Sugar Hill records. She helped produce the first popular rap song, ”Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang. She also co-wrote and produced “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five which was the second popular rap song released.
From wikipedia: More about Sylvia Robinson
(March 6, 1936 – September 29, 2011)
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May 13, 2012 by 16stone
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May 5, 2012 by 16stone
Am I the only one who remembers this?! I can remember watching “The Box” when I was a kid hoping this would come on. My sister and I loooooooved Another Bad Creation, so when we saw this we were immediately excited. The Honeys were the female response to Another Bad Creation. In this song, they reference the Iesha’s lollipop and letter. It was really rare when the video came on, so I remember only seeing it a couple of times. They had another video where they were dressed like sailors too.
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April 30, 2012 by 16stone
Carl Van Vechten captures Joyce Bryant on film wearing Zelda Wynn Valdes gowns.
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Photo credits: Carl Van Vechten
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April 25, 2012 by 16stone
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April 21, 2012 by 16stone
Madeline Jackson aka “Sahji” was a stunning 1940′s exotic shake dancer. Little is know about her life but these snippets are left behind. She even graced the cover of Jet magazine announcing her career change to singing. While there is no known footage of her singing, there is video of her sultry dancing. Enjoy!
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April 14, 2012 by 16stone
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April 13, 2012 by 16stone
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April 9, 2012 by 16stone
Hello out there! I’ve decided to do a new monthly feature. I have an extensive collection of vintage Jet magazine covers on file, and I think it’s about time I start sharing them. I have way too many to keep track of so hopefully I don’t do any repeats. I thought I would start with beach and swimsuit covers.
Enjoy 
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April 5, 2012 by 16stone
For nearly 70 years this amazing vocational school taught values to young black children. The students made such an impression that even Albert Einstein himself gave lectures and sponsored scholarships. This little known story is told through the words of those who attended in the film ” A Place out of Time” : http://www.bordentownschool.tv/
From Wikipedia: The Bordentown School (officially titled the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, the State of New Jersey Manual Training School and Manual Training and Industrial School for Youth, though other names were used over the years), was a residential high school for African-American students, located in Bordentown in Burlington County, New Jersey. Operated for most of the time as a publicly-financed co-ed boarding school for African-American children, it was known as the “Tuskegee of the North” for its adoption of many of the educational practices first developed at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The school closed down in 1955.
The school was founded in 1886 in the New Brunswick house of the Rev. Raymond Rice, a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and former slave from Laurens, South Carolina. Born in 1845, Rice had fought as a volunteer with the Union Army during theAmerican Civil War and went to New Jersey to get an education, after completing his military service. When it was first founded, it was known as “The Ironsides Normal School”. The school’s mission was to train African-American students “in such industries as shall enable them to become self-supporting”. The state passed legislation in 1894 to designate the school as the state’s instructional institution forvocational education. With this legislation, the school was placed under the aegis of a board of trustees composed of state and county officials. The school came under the direct auspices of the New Jersey Board of Education in 1903, with its capital expenditures, curriculum and staffing under state approval. In 1886, the school moved to Bordentown and moved in 1896 to a 400-acre (1.6 km2) tract there that had been owned by United States Navy Admiral Charles Stewart and known as the Parnell Estate. The state originally leased the land, and purchased it in 1901.
The school operated on a year-round basis. It had its own farm, cattle, and orchards that supplied the school with its food; scholarship students could work on the farm to cover their tuition. The school was selective and initially offered its 500 to 600 students an education in the Classics and Latin as part of its overall curriculum, which earned accolades from both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Among notable lecturers at the school were Albert Einstein and Paul Robeson. In 1913, Booker T. Washington recommended that the school identify occupations prevalent among African-Americans as a guide to developing a curriculum for the school, suggesting that training in automobile repairs for boys would help meet the growing demand for chauffeurs, while girls should be offered “domestic science” training. Students were instructed in a trade in addition to the educational curriculum, with boys instructed in agriculture, auto mechanics, and steam boiler operation, and girls being taught beauty culture, dressmaking, and sewing. During the Great Depression, Bordentown graduates were better able than many to find jobs using the skills they had learned at the school.
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