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William Richard " Billy " Wilkerson (September 29, 1890 – September 2, 1962) was the founder of The Hollywood Reporter, [1] a real estate developer in Las Vegas and owner of such nightclubs as Ciro's. His series of columns known as "Billy's List" helped to initiate the red scare that led to the Hollywood blacklist.
Aretha Louise Franklin (/ əˈriːθə / ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. [2] Honored as the " Queen of Soul ", Rolling Stone magazine twice named her as the greatest singer of all time. [3][4] As a child, Franklin was noticed for her gospel singing at New Bethel Baptist Church in ...
Martin Gardner was born into a prosperous family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to James Henry Gardner, a prominent petroleum geologist, [20] and his wife, Willie Wilkerson Spiers, a Montessori-trained teacher. His mother taught Martin to read before he started school, reading him The Wizard of Oz , and this began a lifelong interest in the Oz books of L ...
Willie Wilson (born June 16, 1948) [1] is an American businessman and perennial political candidate from Chicago, Illinois. He unsuccessfully ran in the 2015 , 2019 , and 2023 Chicago mayoral elections, the 2016 United States presidential election , and for the United States Senate in 2020 .
Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame. Willie James Wilson (born July 9, 1955) is an American former professional baseball player. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, and Chicago Cubs. He was an outfielder known for his speed and ability as an effective leadoff hitter.
My Past Is My Own is a television film which aired as a CBS Schoolbreak Special on January 24, 1989. [1] [2] The film is centered on a sit-in in the early 1960s at a racially segregated lunch counter in the Southern United States.
Isabel Wilkerson. Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961) is an African-American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
The title sequence explained the plot; Kidd Video and his band (Named Kidd, Carla, Ash, & Whiz) of the same name (played by live action performers in the first half of the title sequence) were practicing in a storage unit when an animated villain named the Master Blaster appeared, and transported them to the Master Blaster's home dimension, a cartoon world called the Flipside.