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Norris Bumstead Herndon (July 15, 1897 – June 7, 1977) was a prominent African-American businessman, Harvard Business School MBA graduate, philanthropist, member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, and second President of the historic African-American-owned Atlanta Life Insurance Company.
Alonzo "Lon" Franklin Herndon (June 26, 1858 Walton County, Georgia – July 21, 1927) was an African-American entrepreneur and businessman in Atlanta, Georgia. Born into slavery, he became one of the first African American millionaires in the United States, first achieving success by owning and operating three large barber shops in the city ...
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Adrienne Elizabeth McNeil was born on July 22, 1869, in Augusta, Georgia to the unwed couple Martha Fleming and George Stevens. [2] Her mother, seventeen at the time of her birth, was a domestic servant and seamstress who had been born into slavery, while her father was a light-skinned man who abandoned the family shortly after Herndon's birth. [3]
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Penny Singleton (born Mariana Dorothy McNulty, September 15, 1908 [1] – November 12, 2003) was an American actress and labor leader. During her six decade career on stage, screen, radio and television, Singleton appeared as the comic-strip heroine Blondie Bumstead in a series of 28 motion pictures from 1938 until 1950 and the popular Blondie radio program from 1939 until 1950.
The call from his publicist at 5 a.m. was to tell him he was nominated for his seventh Globe Globe award, for his performance as Tommy Norris in Taylor Sheridan’s newest drama, Landman. Sheridan ...
The Whatnauts were an American soul group from Baltimore, Maryland, [1] founded in 1969. [2] George Kerr produced them. The group had several hit singles in the early 1970s, including the socially conscious single "Message from a Black Man" in 1970 on A&I International, "Please Make the Love Go Away" also in 1970 on Stang, and their biggest success "I'll Erase Away Your Pain" in 1971.