Frances taylor

“It is with great sadness and heavy heart that we, the family of Frances Taylor Davis, announce her passing," the family said in a statement.

Taylor Fritz pokes fun at Frances Tiafoe as he mentions the instance where Tiafoe went to the wrong airport on his way to Shanghai and hence missed his flight

MAY 5 1954 HUE MAGAZINE VOL.1 #8 (Frances Taylor)

Parce qu'on n'a jamais assez de hauteur, de laque et d'anglaises, revisitons les plus suaves créations capillaires. Et pour cette cinquantième édition, Liz Taylor nous propose un modèle intitulé "Le Mausolée".

Miles Davis and his wife Francis after his release on bail from The Tombs in Manhattan. Photo by Stanley Hall, in 1959.

While Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead takes place during Miles Davis’s first marriage to Frances Taylor, it’s the pairing of the jazz great and the inimitable Cicely Tyson that stands out in our mind as a union of style, swagger, and genius.

Rare photo of Esther Rolle (“Good Times”) in London with fellow actors of the Negro Ensemble Company in the mid 60s. Notice to her right Frances Foster who played Gertie Vincent in the infamous “meat loaf” episode as well as Clarice Taylor (L) who went on to play Dr. Huxtable’s mother on “The Cosby Show”.

I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history of People of Color. Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions. I look forward to reading them!

oh the crown

Hollywood power couple Kirk and Anne Douglas recall Elizabeth Taylor's love story with her third husband Mike Todd, who died in 1958, in their new book released on Tuesday.