5 episodes in which Rochester gets the best of his boss on The Jack Benny Show Gwen Ihnat look at the latest streaming TV arrivals, each making the case for a favored episode. Alternately, they can offer up recommendations inspired by a theme. In this installment: In honor of Black History Month, we’re spotlighting five episodes of The Jack Benny Show
that featured Eddie “Rochester” Anderson.
There were Black characters on the air during the early days of radio, as the first mass broadcasting medium swept the country in the 1930s, though many of them were portrayed by white actors in what amounts to aural blackface. The most famous example was the popular program
5 outstanding Rochester episodes from The Jack Benny Show
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Muddy Waters
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As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
CLARKSDALE, Miss. Two men one Black, one white arrived at Stovall Plantation on the last day of August 1941.
John Work III, a professor from Nashville’s Fisk University, and musicologist Alan Lomax had set out to capture recordings of the music of the rural South for the Library of Congress.
They were in the blistering heart of the Mississippi Delta that produced Charley Patton, Son House and Robert Johnson, a man who legend says sold his soul to the devil in exchange for guitar virtuosity at a crossroads roughly eight miles to the south.
Fear the Walking Dead and
God Friended Me. It was recently announced that she will appear in the Adrienne Warren-led
Women of the Movement Series. Pinkins is also the writer, director and producer of the upcoming political thriller
Red Pill, which will premiere next month at the all-virtual Pan African Film Festival, the largest Black film festival in the United States. Below, read her tribute to a woman who made her feel success was possible.?play>Ethel Waters in
(Photo: Alfredo Valentine/NYPL)
Pinkins on Waters: Ethel Waters was America’s first multi-hyphenate super star. She worked in every entertainment medium for six decades. She was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for the film
What was it about Bessie Smith that made such an impression on you? I think she’s simply the best. I think all the blues singers at the time – Clara Smith, Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters – would have acknowledged that she was the queen of the blues; her tempo, her timing, her understanding of the blues. She wrote a lot of her own blues. Ma Rainey taught her a lot of the ropes, but Bessie was technically, and in every which way, better than any of her contemporaries. And I think Bessie’s life captures us. Alas, we all do love a tragic death. We all like to think, ‘What would have happened if someone had lived longer?’ From the Janis Joplins to the Bessie Smiths to the Amy Winehouses to the Robert Burns, we are constantly left with the question, ‘what if?’
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