Bessie Carter has opened up about the "joyful" reality of life after her breakup with Bridgerton co-star Sam Phillips. After reportedly moving in together in 2023, the pair have parted ways - a move ...
IN Edward Albee’s “The Death of Bessie Smith,” a one-act play that has now joined his brilliant “The American Dream” at the York Playhouse, the author bypasses the Raymond Massey-Abe Lincoln ...
WHITE SULPHUR SRINGS — The White Sulphur Springs Public Library will host a living history performance portraying blues legend Bessie Smith at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26. Singer and actress Doris Fields ...
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Long before superstardom existed, Bessie Smith showed the world what it meant to be a legend. Born into poverty, she turned her pain into art and her art into power. Her songs defined the blues, her ...
The hangings parted and a great brown woman emerged—she was the size of Fay Templeton in her Weber & Fields days, and she was even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled with sequins, which ...
ENID, Okla. — Residents attending Enid Chautauqua on Friday, June 13, 2025, learned about the trials and tribulations of the “Empress of the Blues.” Scholar Rebecca Marks Jimerson portrayed Bessie ...
The Bessie Smith Cultural Center will present a full month of events this June celebrating African American history, culture and music. "From honoring Negro League baseball legends to uplifting ...
Like a perfectly timed high note in a torch song, Bessie doesn't tiptoe into queerness as filmmaker Dee Rees gives us a love letter to Black, bisexual brilliance. After all, when history forgets our ...
This broadcast continues the celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month with new releases from Trilogy, Jose Luiz Martins, Jeff Libman, Medler Sextet and Nancy Kelly, with birthday shoutouts to Carline ...
Adorned with feathered headpieces, strings of pearls, bright lipstick and custom-made wigs and satin dresses, flecked with jewels and gems, Detroit's finest jazz vocalists — including Veronique ...