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"To Be Young, Gifted and Black" is a song by Nina Simone with lyrics by Weldon Irvine. Simone introduced the song on August 17, 1969, to a crowd of 50,000 at the Harlem Cultural Festival, captured on broadcast video tape and released in 2021 as the documentary film Summer of Soul.
Young, Gifted and Black is the eighteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Aretha Franklin, released in early 1972, by Atlantic Records. The album climbed to number 2 on Billboard 's R&B albums survey and peaked at Number 11 on the main album chart.
He wrote more than 500 songs, [4] including the lyrics for "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", performed live for the first time by Simone on the album Black Gold (1970). It has been dubbed the "official" Civil Rights anthem. In 1998, he performed the keys for "Astronomy (8th Light)" on Black Star's album Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star.
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in her Own Words, is a play about the life of American writer Lorraine Hansberry, adapted from her own writings.Hansberry was best known for her 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, the first show on Broadway written by an African-American woman.
Bob and Marcia were a Jamaican vocal duo, that consisted of Bob Andy and Marcia Griffiths. [1] They had a #5 UK hit single in 1970 with "Young, Gifted and Black". [2] They followed up with "Pied Piper", which peaked at #11 in the UK Singles Chart in 1971.
President-elect Donald Trump had not been terribly successful in suing media organizations until this weekend when ABC News agreed to settle a closely-watched defamation case he brought against ...
Kimberly Guilfoyle. Guilfoyle began dating Trump’s son in 2018 after his divorce from his ex-wife, Vanessa Trump.Guilfoyle previously was married to California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, and ...
To Be Young, Gifted and Black, 1968, based on the collated autobiographical writings of Lorraine Hansberry; To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words (1969), posthumous autobiography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) To Be Young, Gifted and Black, a 1972 made-for-television movie directed by Michael Schultz, based on ...