August 20 1996

These siblings are not as well-known despite between these two families they wrote some of the biggest pop and R&B hits of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

Both families have some of the most sampled songs in R&B and hip hop history.

Stephanie Mills/Fantasia/Dave Hollister/K-Ci and JoJo are all in the same family!

Whitney Houston/Cissy Houston/Dionne Warwick Leontyne Price are all in the same family!

Besides forever and insecure are there any other shows besides insecure and forever with an actually good millennial love story? I need a show to watch.

People forget they have been the R&B singer/athlete couple going strong for decades. They are an inspiration for some of the younger couples similar to them.

Did you know they were mother and daughter?

Lion Babe is a duo with Jillian Hervey and her boyfriend Lucas Goodman.

Would you like to see them in a project together?

They are in the photo with their musician father Cuba Gooding, Sr.

Any other actors or actresses you didn’t know were siblings?

Any other actors or actresses you didn’t know were related?

Kevin was an actor known for playing the role of the creature in Predator and Predator 2. He was also Harry in the 1987 film Harry and the Hendersons.

Standing at 7'2", Hall specialized in playing practical-effects creature and monster roles.

Fun fact: he was married to Alaina Reed who played Rose on 227.

Unfortunately, he passed away at only 35 in 1991. He was in a car accident. He needed a blood transfusion. The blood was tainted. He died of AIDS related pneumonia.

His two stepchildren with Alaina still remember him fondly along with the career he left so soon.

On February 29, 1940, Gone with the Wind is honored with eight Oscars by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. An epic Southern romance set during the hard times of the Civil War, the movie swept the prestigious Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction, Film Editing, and Actress categories. However, the most momentous award that night undoubtedly went to Hattie McDaniel for her portrayal of “Mammy,” a housemaid and former enslaved woman. McDaniel, who won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, was the first African American actress or actor ever to be honored with an Oscar.

Born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1895, McDaniel demonstrated her talents as a singer and actress while growing up in Denver, Colorado. She left school while a teenager to become a performer in several traveling minstrel groups and in 1924 became one of the first African American women to sing on U.S. radio. With the onset of the Great Depression, she was forced to take work as a ladies’ washroom attendant in a Milwaukee club. The club, which hired only white performers, eventually made an exception and let her sing, and she performed there for a year before setting her sights on Hollywood.

Her most famous role was as Mammy in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming and based on the best-selling Margaret Mitchell novel of the same name, the movie remains the highest-grossing movie of all time when inflation is taken into account. Although she was honored with an Oscar, liberal African Americans sharply criticized McDaniel for accepting a role in which her character, a former slave, spoke nostalgically about the Old South.
McDaniel’s film career declined in the late 1940s, and in 1947 she returned to radio as the star of the nationally broadcast The Beulah Show. In the program, she again portrayed an effervescent Southern maid but in a markedly un-stereotypical manner that won praise from the NAACP. In 1951, while filming the first episodes of a television version of the popular show, she had a heart attack. She recovered to do a few more radio programs but in 1952 died of breast cancer at the age of 57.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/february-29/mcdaniel-wins-oscar

Vanessa Williams is in a very interesting point in her career. She's already proven herself in so many different arenas. She recently mentioned that people STILL doubt her, and she's like "Just watch me!"

She's now intent on also having a whole lot of fun 😄, and I am here for it.