Terry Carter, barrier-breaking actor and documentarian, dies at 95
Terry Carter, who broke color barriers onstage and on television in the 1950s and 60s and later produced multicultural documentaries on jazz lum
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Terry Carter, who broke color barriers onstage and on television in the 1950s and 60s and later produced multicultural documentaries on jazz lum
New England's first Black news anchor at WBZ in Boston from 1965-68, Terry Carter also broke color barriers onstage in the 1950s and ’60s and later produced multicultural documentaries.
Dr. Brenda M. Greene, executive director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, writes about Brooklynite Louise Meriwether, a civil rights movement activist and prolific author and journalist.
Disillusioned, she gave up show business to become a civil rights activist, then later reinvented herself as an opera singer
Known as the "The Bronze Blond Bombshell," Bryant was an accomplished singer, performer, and activist.