Adrienne Wartts
Adjunct professor of film studies at Webster University
M.A. in American Culture Studies, with an emphasis in African American Studies, from Washington University
Adrienne N. Wartts received her M.A. in American Culture Studies, with an emphasis in African American Studies, from Washington University in St. Louis. She is an adjunct professor of film studies at Webster University. As a contributing writer for Jerry Jazz Musician magazine, she has interviewed Rick Coleman, author of Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock ‘N’ Roll and Elizabeth Pepin, author of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era. Adrienne is the recipient of the 2009 Norman Mailer Writers Colony Scholarship for biography writing.
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Juanita Moore (1922-2014)
Veteran actress Juanita Moore is fondly remembered for her tear-jerking role of Annie Johnson in Douglas Sirk’s 1959 remake of...
Lillian Randolph (1915-1980)
Lillian Randolph was a 20th Century actress who routinely, yet proudly, presented the role of the black domestic in film...
Alvin Childress (1907-1986)
Alvin Childress is best remembered for his role as the philosophical easy-going character Amos on the Amos n’ Andy show,...
Amanda Randolph (1896-1967)
Amanda Randolph, one of the first black performers to appear consistently on television, was born in 1896 in Louisville, Kentucky....
Theresa Harris (1911-1985)
Actress Theresa Harris once shared with a reporter that her “greatest ambition was to be known someday as a great...
Francine Everett (1915-1999)
Although never given accolades parallel to her contemporaries in mainstream films, Francine Everett’s unyielding determination to epitomize African American women...
Sam Lucas (1840-1915)
Sam Lucas, one of the most respected and celebrated entertainers of his time, is credited with breaking barriers for black...
Kenneth Spencer (1913-1964)
Compared at the time to his more famous colleague, Paul Robeson, and heralded by major publicity outlets of his day...
Tim Moore (1888-1958)
Broadway stage comedian Tim Moore, whose career as an entertainer spanned more than 50 years, is best remembered as George...
Brock Peters (1927-2005)
Brock Peters, who emerged as a prominent actor of the 1960s, was born George Fisher in 1927, to Sonny and...
Diana Sands (1934-1973)
Diana Sands, the first black actress to be cast in a major Broadway play without regard to color, was born...
Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church [Philadelphia] (1794- )
Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in the nation, was founded in Philadelphia,...
