A color photograph of Rakim captured mid-performance at the Apollo Theater. Rakim is pictured in the center of the image wearing a blue and red Nike jacket with matching track pants. The jacket is open to display a double-wrapped gold rope chain with large…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.132.361
A color photograph of Redman. Redman is pictured in the foreground of the image, visible from the chest up. He is standing in the center and is wearing a grey jersey with blue, black, and green accents. He is wearing a white shirt under the jersey and a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.132.184
A color photograph of the members of Run-DMC wearing colorful track suits. The image depicts Run-DMC, (left to right) Jam Master Jay, DMC, and Run, in front of an interior window. Jay is sitting on the windowsill, his arm around DMC. He is looking at the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.132.260
A color photograph of Samuel M. Jackson's family members The Jackson 5, taken while they were visiting Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Jackson 5 are posing on the lawn in front of a house with Samuel M. Jackson, as well as patricarch and band manager Joe Jackson. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.75.37
A color photograph of six (6) women posing behind a formally set banquet table in what appears to be a residential dining room. Five (5) of the women are wearing white clothing, while the third woman from the right is wearing a plum-colored outfit. On the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.75.38
A color photograph of The Beatnuts. From left to right are Psycho Les, Fashion, Rick Man, and Juju Gigante. Les wears a light grey hoodie, with the hood pulled up over a black baseball cap with a gold crown logo on the front. He is gesturing with his…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.132.185
A color photograph of five (5) people sitting around a small kitchen table. In the photograph are an older gentleman, John Allen Cloman II, Eustice Jackson's older brother; a toddler, John Allen Cloman IV (Jay), Eustice's great-nephew, sitting in a booster…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.75.29
A color photograph of the Dyer Memorial Chapel. The building has a flat roof line, natural rock-masoned walls and siding. There is a deck with a metal railing off the second floor. The front lawn is neatly mown grass, and there is a single tree in the lawn…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.75.53
A color photograph of Ego Trip Crew at the Monkey Academy. The image shows the members of Ego Trip Crew in a room full of CDs and albums. There are CDs on a bookshelf in the background and also on a table off to the side. There is DJ equipment on the table…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.132.12
A color photograph of Samuel M. Jackson's family members The Jackson 5, along with family patriarch and band manager Joe Jackson. The photograph was taken when the band was visiting Tulsa, Oklahoma. A young Michael Jackson can be seen standing in the grass…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.75.36
A color photograph of the gravestone for three (3) members of the Jackson family, Samuel M. Jackson Jr. at proper left, Samuel M. Jackson at center, and Eunice Jackson at the proper right. On either side of the gravestone are memorial flower holders,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.75.74
A color photograph of Alabama rapper The Last Mr. Bigg. Bigg is pictured seated, wearing a green Chicago White Sox jacket and hat, and smoking. He has a white gauze bandage over his proper right eye, with black sunglasses on top. The green baseball cap…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.132.214
A color photograph of Jack's Memory Chapel at 821 E 36th Street N in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The funeral home is a one-story red brick building with eight (8) double-hung windows, a main entrance door at center left, and a side door at center right. The six (6)…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.75.67
A color photograph of the headstone of Percy William Cloman, brother of Eunice Jackson. The gravestone is a stone marker, surrounded by browning grass and some leaves. Carved at the top of the gravestone is a recessed cross. Engraved below the cross is:…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.75.58
A color photograph of a group of twenty (20) women and eight (8) men posing outdoors. The group is arranged into four (4) rows, with the first row of women sitting in the grass, the second row of women and men sitting in chairs, and the back two rows of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.75.133
A color photograph of two men sitting in a wood-paneled room. Both men have glasses and closely trimmed hair. Both men are wearing light-colored button up shirts, and the man on the right also is wearing a jacket and tie. There are some cigarettes and a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.75.54
A color photograph of three (3) women. Two women are seated at what appears to be a picnic table, and one is standing behind them with her hands resting on the chair backs. All of the women are smiling. In the background, another long table and folding…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.75.55
A color photograph of Willie D. Willie D is sitting on concrete steps. There are two steps and he is sitting on the top one. He is wearing a black short sleeve shirt with a white t-shirt underneath. The white shirt has an image of a man on it. The black…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.132.418
Chronik (born 3 May 1981), is a grime MC from Maryland, east London. Active in underground music for a number of years, he has released two solo mixtapes; Blaze More Dan U (2007) and Free Chronik (2011). He released his first album, Rise of the Lengman in…
Chrystal Rose is best known as a British television personality who was the first woman of any nationality to host an eponymous TV talk show in the UK, The Chrystal Rose Show, produced by Carlton Television and broadcast on ITV from 1993 to 1996, 103…
Leon Brown "Chu" Berry (September 13, 1908 – October 30, 1941) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist during the 1930s. He is perhaps best known for his time as a member of singer Cab Calloway's big band. According to music critic Gary Giddins, musicians…
Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans; October 3, 1941) is an American rock and roll singer and dancer. He is known for popularizing many dance styles, including the Twist, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B song "The Twist", and…
