In the late 1980s, Peaston, a former schoolteacher, born in St. Louis, won several competitions on the Showtime at the Apollo television show, winning over the audience with a powerful rendition of “God Bless the Child.”
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Singer David Peaston Dies at 54
Spike Lee to headline OSU’s Black World Month celebration
COLUMBUS OHIO -- Lee has been in the news lately with his latest film, the self-financed; low-budget “Red Hook Summer,” which recently played the world-famous Sundance Film Festival. The controversial drama is about an Atlanta boy who is sent to spend the summer with his preacher grandfather in Brooklyn, N.Y.Like all of Lee’s work, the movie explores themes of race, class and other provocative subjects.
‘Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina’
In 1960, Joan Myers Brown opened a dance school in Philly in order to afford aspiring, black ballerinas a chance for formal training at a time when their opportunities were severely limited due to de facto segregation. A decade later, she founded The Philadelphia Dance Company, aka Philadanco, a professional company for her top students who found themselves unwelcome at lily-white institutions still practicing racial discrimination.
Soul Train's Don Cornelius found dead
News reports will say that Cornelius was the creator of the longest running, first-run, nationally syndicated program in television history, but he and his brainchild was so much more than that. His self-titled “Hippest Trip in America,” ushered in a sub-culture of self-expression through music and dance not seen in the African American community. The dance show format had been popularized earlier by Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand,” but Don Cornelius’s soul brother cool and baritone swagger earned him an instant ghetto pass and massive street cred that left all others in his wake.
Etta James remembered as triumphant trailblazer
She rebounded from a heroin addiction to see her career surge after performing the national anthem at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. She won her first Grammy Award a decade later, and two more in 2003 and 2004.
My Daddy the Tuskegee Airman
Editor’s Note: Fresh off a stunning performance opening for Kem at the Ohio Theater and the release of her debut CD ‘Sarah’s Girl,” Stacey Richardson Crawford, after the release of the film “Red Tails,” took time to share with CP2 the following story about her dad Tuskegee Airman Roy S. Richardson.
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Spoken Word Artist Allison "Tru Poetry" Sain. 
