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Robert Hooks (born Bobby Dean Hooks; April 18, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and activist. [1] Along with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone, he founded The Negro Ensemble Company.
Eugene Shalit (born March 25, 1926) is an American retired journalist, television personality, film and book critic, and author.After starting to work part-time on NBC's The Today Show in 1970, he filled those roles from January 15, 1973, [1] until retiring on November 11, 2010.
You can’t talk about Black actors on TV without mentioning this legendary Houston-born actor. Playing Clair Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” from 1984-1992, Phylicia Rashad defined nearly 200 ...
Bush Hager, 43, launched her own new show, Today with Jenna & Friends, last month after her former co-host, Hoda Kotb, left Today with Hoda & Jenna. In the new program’s first few weeks, Bush ...
J. Fred Muggs (born March 14, 1952) is a chimpanzee born in the African colony of French Cameroon that forms part of modern-day Cameroon.Brought to New York City before his first birthday, he was bought by two former NBC pages and eventually appeared on a host of television shows on that network including NBC's Today Show where he served as mascot from 1953 to 1957.
Rodney Allen Rippy (born July 29, 1968) is an American former child actor, television personality, marketing director, producer, and politician.He appeared in TV commercials for the fast-food chain Jack in the Box in the early 1970s, as well as in numerous roles in television and movies.
The song-and-dance man started young, blazed trails as perhaps the first Black regular on a TV variety show and kept at it until his death at 97. Arthur Duncan, who kept virtuoso tap dancing alive ...
Craig Delano Melvin [1] (born May 20, 1979) is an American broadcast journalist and anchor at NBC News and MSNBC.From August 2018 until January 2025, he was a news anchor on NBC's Today, in October 2018, a co-host of Today Third Hour before being made permanent host in January 2019, and in January 2025, he became a co-anchor for the first and second hours of Today.