{"id":176433732,"date":"2014-03-13T00:52:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T05:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176433732"},"modified":"2014-03-13T00:52:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T05:52:59","slug":"history-video-stunning-rare-photos-of-our-favorite-black-hollywood-stars-fill-new-coffee-table-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2014\/03\/13\/history-video-stunning-rare-photos-of-our-favorite-black-hollywood-stars-fill-new-coffee-table-book\/","title":{"rendered":"HISTORY + VIDEO: Stunning Rare Photos Of Our Favorite Black Hollywood Stars Fill New Coffee Table Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Huffington Post\" src=\"http:\/\/s.huffpost.com\/images\/v\/logos\/v4\/style.gif?29\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>03\/11\/2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<header>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\">Stunning Rare Photos <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\">Of Our Favorite <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\">Black Hollywood Stars <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\">Fill New Coffee Table Book<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>The Huffington Post\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0by\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/julee-wilson\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Julee Wilson<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/templates\/nbc_partner_player?cmsID=249186331&amp;videoID=M7GqPwQWr0Ek&amp;origin=nbcnewyork.com&amp;sec=video&amp;subsec=&amp;width=600&amp;height=360&amp;turl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2014%2F03%2F11%2Fvintage-black-glamour-book-_n_4940559.html&amp;ourl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com&amp;lp=1\" height=\"360\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_176433734\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176433734\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176433734\" alt=\"\u201cSarah Vaughan in her dressing room in Chicago, 1948. I wonder which fragrance she was using? Photo: Ted Williams.\u201d  Photo Courtesy of Vintage Black Glamour\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-01.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-01.jpg 500w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-01-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-176433734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><strong>\u201cSarah Vaughan in her dressing room in Chicago, 1948. I wonder which fragrance she was using? Photo: Ted Williams.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><strong>Photo Courtesy of Vintage Black Glamour<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_176433735\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-02.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176433735\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176433735\" alt=\"This rare color photograph of Ms. Hurston was taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1940. Photo: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-02.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-02.jpg 500w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-02-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-176433735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><strong>This rare color photograph of Ms. Hurston was taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1940. Photo: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_176433736\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-03.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176433736\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176433736\" alt=\"Maya Angelou doing a little reading in her dressing room before her performance at the Village Vanguard in New York City. Long before she was a poet and writer and the icon we know today, Dr. Angelou was a dancer and singer of folk and calypso songs (she even recorded an album in 1957 called \u201cMiss Calypso\u201d and appeared in the film \u201cCalypso Heat Wave\u201d that same year. This photo was taken by G. Marshall Wilson, who was a staff photographer at Ebony for 33 years. Photo: Art.com\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-03.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-03.jpg 466w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-03-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-176433736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">Maya Angelou doing a little reading in her dressing room before her performance at the Village Vanguard in New York City. Long before she was a poet and writer and the icon we know today, Dr. Angelou was a dancer and singer of folk and calypso songs (she even recorded an album in 1957 called \u201cMiss Calypso\u201d and appeared in the film \u201cCalypso Heat Wave\u201d that same year. This photo was taken by G. Marshall Wilson, who was a staff photographer at Ebony for 33 years. Photo: Art.com<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_176433737\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-04.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176433737\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176433737\" alt=\"Paul Robeson, majestic singer and actor, brilliant scholar and athlete, fierce political activist and all-around renaissance man, in a 1925 photo by Edward Gooch.\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-04.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-04.jpg 435w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/glamour-04-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-176433737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><strong>Paul Robeson, majestic singer and actor, brilliant scholar and athlete, fierce political activist and all-around renaissance man, in a 1925 photo by Edward Gooch.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">We could spend hours poring over the rare and amazing photographs from the website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vintageblackglamour.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_hplink\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vintage Black Glamour<\/span><\/a>. In fact we have, which is why we&#8217;re pumped that Nichelle Gainer, the site&#8217;s founder and editor, has decided to compile the best of the best into one beautiful coffee table book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The 100+ page tome, which is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vintageblackglamourbook.com\/\" target=\"_hplink\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">only available for pre-order<\/span><\/a>\u00a0at the moment, will include candid images like Josephine Baker getting a pedicure, Diana Ross on the set of &#8220;Mahogany&#8221; and Aretha Franklin in her dressing room, just to name a few. However, movie stars and musicians aren&#8217;t the only ones making their stylish mark in the book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">&#8220;I really see &#8216;Vintage Black Glamour&#8217; as style and substance,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/video\/#!\/on-air\/as-seen-on\/Positively-Black--Vintage-Black-Glamour\/249186331\" target=\"_hplink\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gainer told NBC<\/span><\/a>. &#8220;So yes, there are definitely the icons like Eartha Kitt, Dorothy Dandridge and Josephine Baker. But you&#8217;ll also see a writer like Dr. Maya Angelou &#8212; because I want to show that side of it all. And I&#8217;ll have Zora Neal Hurston.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Sounds pretty darn fabulous! Check out Nichelle&#8217;s &#8220;Positively Black&#8221; segment on NBC in the video above to hear more about the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&gt;via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/03\/11\/vintage-black-glamour-book-_n_4940559.html?ir=Style#slide=3509760\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/03\/11\/vintage-black-glamour-book-_n_4940559.html?ir=Style#slide=3509760<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 03\/11\/2014 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Stunning Rare Photos Of Our Favorite Black Hollywood Stars Fill New Coffee Table Book &nbsp; &nbsp; The Huffington Post\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0by\u00a0\u00a0Julee Wilson We could spend hours poring over the rare and amazing photographs from the website\u00a0Vintage Black Glamour. In fact we have, which is why we&#8217;re pumped that Nichelle Gainer, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176433732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176433732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176433732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176433776,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176433732\/revisions\/176433776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176433732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176433732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176433732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}