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Oscar Brown Jr. (October 10, 1926 – May 29, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, actor, and civil rights activist (Brown was African-American) . Brown discovered The Jackson 5 .
For three years beginning in 1948 he partnered with composer Oscar Brown, Jr. to produce Negro Newsfront, the first daily radio news broadcast in the United States to be created by African Americans. [2] Jarrett was the first African American to be a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune, beginning in 1970. [8]
Written by Oscar Brown, Jr., the show featured an interracial cast including Lonnie Sattin, Nichelle Nichols, Vi Velasco, Al Freeman, Jr., Zabeth Wilde, and Burgess Meredith in the title role of Mr. Kicks. A satire involving miscegenation, the $400,000 production was co-produced by her husband Robert Nemiroff. Despite a warm reception in ...
We Insist! (subtitled Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite) is a jazz album which was released through Candid Records in December 1960. It contains a suite which composer and drummer Max Roach and lyricist Oscar Brown had begun to develop in 1959 with a view to its performance in 1963 on the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images Once a Pearson, always a Pearson. The cast of This Is Us is celebrating Sterling K. Brown after the actor received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role ...
Robert Downey Jr. received the award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 2024 Oscars for his performance in Oppenheimer — and gave his wife, Susan Downey, most of the credit.
After George Sr. escapes confinement, Oscar is arrested because police assume he is George. The police also impound Oscar's trailer, leaving him even more indigent than usual. Lucille allows him to live with her and Buster. Oscar's presence allows Buster to develop the many talents he'd discovered with Lucille.
Sterling K. Brown, who received an Oscar nomination for best actor in a supporting role for his turn as Clifford Ellison in “American Fiction,” doesn’t think he’ll be taking home the ...