I want to thank everyone involved in putting this program together originally and for whoever has posted this here. Thanks to Lorraine Toussaint for so elegantly hosting the evening. Della Reese was a door opener (that’s a description I got from this program) and a life changer. She made life better for many people, and I am one of them. I was one of her Godchildren. I miss sitting with her. I miss the gentleness of holding her hand. But am blessed to hearing and feeling her talking to me all the time.

@tobydanger86

2 жыл бұрын

You were so lucky and I thank you for verifying what I’ve always thought she would be like.

@matthewdarnell3535

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing! I fell in love with Della when I was a kid watching touched by an angel. She seemed like such a nurturing soul! We all need those people in our lives and you sure had a good one! I bought a movie of hers called chasing secrets and my goodness she touched my heart! She was such a talent! Don’t you know will be turned up loud! ❤️

@catherinecerrito7679

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful person and singer.i love her voice she will.foreve.live in my ❤

@evonza4858

2 жыл бұрын

True ❤️🖤💚

If Miss Reese didn’t have such a magnificent career as a singer she most assuredly could have been a legendary comedian. This story, was mostly heavy and she managed to tell it with such humor. Who couldn’t love her ? ❤️❤️ RIP.

This woman is so alive. We all need a Della Reese in our lives.

She was a phenomenal woman

Wow she is a true icon

@isaiahhenderson3447

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know she had Cherokee blood in her thats interesting

Beautiful, smart, witty, and intelligent women - both the host and the guest. Such a great conversation!!

Della is one of those sisters that is a beautiful,strong outspoken role model to me🥰❤️🖤💚rest in power Della❤️🖤💚

Beautiful woman! Beautiful voice! Beautiful soul! Beautiful life!❤️

@isaiahhenderson3447

3 жыл бұрын

Its also said her mother was Native American

@john111257

2 жыл бұрын

beautiful angel RIP

@isaiahhenderson3447

2 жыл бұрын

@@john111257 She is my favorite in Black Hollywood

Happy Heavenly Birthday Della!

Her hair is so glorious 😍

She was amazing. 🥰🥰🥰

This Historymakers Series was an amazing platform that truly allowed our great stars there just dues. Della Reese was a one of a kind legend and she proved why in this interview.

That was very nice indeed! Della Reese!!!

This made me smile and tear

@TheHistoryMakers

3 жыл бұрын

We're so glad that this video touched you!

Just a class act...

She reminds me of my grandma.

One very special Lady we were privileged to have lived in her time. When Della sang Life was better.

Della Reese I remember You ..

How sweet listening to Della talks 👄. I could listen to her speech 💬 all day

@TheHistoryMakers

2 жыл бұрын

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I could sit and listen to her all day.

I’ve always admired Ms.Della Reese. One of my favorites!

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2 жыл бұрын

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Beautiful 🥰

We should all liked to be remembered... Praise God.

A most beautiful interview. How blessed we are to hear Ms. Reese’s story firsthand, led so respectfully by Toussaint

This woman was a true Diva with class.

@TheHistoryMakers

2 жыл бұрын

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Della with a voice that could swing with the best and more some. A very special, magical person.

What a woman, what a talent and such a strong but kind soul.

Incredibly talented woman. Incredible voice. What is evident, is that, as she mentions at the start, she came from a loving home, so with that confidence nothing could stop her. That and her faith.

I love Della because of her honesty and yes her glamorous dressing🥰❤️🖤💚

God bless Dr Della

Wow just great!!!!

Della did so much and I'm so proud of her 🥰❤️🖤💚

Ps and actor sister Ms Toussant l love and appreciate you also🥰❤️🖤💚

Thank you for your interview of this iconic American Woman a true pioneer who is true and far-reaching voice reached many

I just love this Angel that walked on our earth. Lord....God. ...Thank you

I honestly always adored her.

Thank you Dellafor making this avaliable 🙌🏿👏🏾

Beautiful

@TheHistoryMakers

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@milesclarke6592

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryMakers you are welcome! Do you have the video with Nancy Wilson? I always wanted to see that!

@TheHistoryMakers

3 жыл бұрын

@@milesclarke6592 Click here to learn more about Nancy Wilson and watch a few excerpts of her HistoryMakers interview, the full version of which you can access if you subscribe to the archive or if you are a member of a subscribing institution: www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/nancy-wilson-41

@milesclarke6592

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryMakers okay fine but I'm asking if you can upload the interview with Nancy Wilson on KZread like you're doing everyone else that's what I'm asking

Such an amazing moment. Thank you for uploading this. Della don’t fret, you will definitely be remembered. 💜

I enjoyed this interview soooo much!! A true Beautiful Angel❤🙏🏽

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2 жыл бұрын

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"the hamburger story", as I thought about it, with her telling it, nearly brought me to tears....because I could see her experiencing this sort of brutal racism, in my mind's eye. I felt her pain...but I also saw her spirit and strength, as she spoke about the man who 'made a way out of no way' for her (Sullivan). And one of the many things I love about my people, is how we NEVER forget an extended hand to help us get to the next "whatever". Your race doesn't matter to us..your heart does. Della Reese is one of the all time great black entertainers, because she was a literal pioneer, in Vegas and so many other places. There are no performers named, Phyllis Hyman, or Rachelle Ferrell or Anita Baker, had there not been women like Mrs Reese, Sarah Vaughn and Lena Horne.

You gave me life to sit there and keep going even though I was abused it kept my sister and brother up because I seen all your shows Amazing Grace amazing happens in every since that I've been watching all of them you inspired me God bless you the Lord will love you with the kiss

Della is also a natural comedian 🥰❤️🖤💚

What an entertaining lady.

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Mahalia Jackson little sister who proved your way and made a voice of Her Own and inspired so many of us I'm in tears

Amen / Awoman

@TheHistoryMakers

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Shout out to Ed Sullivan for being a fair man and not be a racist ❤️🖤💚

If they had done it from the first time I would had been " done by now "

The interviewer and Della look like twins😅

If they ever did a movie on her I think Pam from Martin should be the one who played her in her younger years

I absolutely love Della to death, I really do, especially in Harlem nights, I just love all of her acting gigs, but I never really could feel her, as a singer, I guess because I'm a singer, and I grew up in the church too, I just never was attracted to her, being vocal performer, verses a theatrical, and movie performer, sorry ijs,however, is she would have chosen jazz, and only jazz, then I think her name would have been much higher, in the music industry, because it Billie Holiday's voice, can be called one of the best ever, then Della definitely could have been, has she done jazz songs, (she's another one I don't understand, Billie Holiday, who I also love hearing about, I love the movie, I love her interviews and all of that, but her voice,sound like there's two rats and her throat, and they're scratching each other to get out, to me, and I couldn't stand, the way she treated other people, and how filthy her mouth was, like one-time Maya Angelou, try to sing old blue songs, and Lady Nodd, I mean Lady Day,herself was in the audience, and Adam nowhere but no reason at all, she started screaming at Maya, saying get off the stage you know singing b****, you sound like my mother,like she was crazy as hell, and goodness knows she couldn't carry a tune, if it was in a bucket, as far as I am concerned, now you might feel totally different about her, you might feel asthough she is the best voice of all time, or one of the best, to me she's no where near one of, or could've been, even close, to anybody's best voice,if you think of Billie Holiday, is Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, or Whitney Houston, which you would have to, to say she's one of the best voices of all time, then I'm not going to argue with the impaired, because you have to be in the blind and deaf School of America, and I also happen to be a nurse, so I truly do understand, where you're coming from) but jokes aside, God knows, that I absolutely love this woman, and have always had, mad love & respect for her, all my life, and I always will, & even if I felt as though she wasn't a great, (or strong I think it's the better word, because I really think she would have made a great jazz singer) singer, I wouldn't've cared, she wants to sing, she did have a fanbase, other people liked her, let her sing, that wouldn't stop me from going and seeing her, and supporting her, if I was around back when she was, meaning in the 50s) when it came to rhythm and blues, or pop, however is even if she didn't have someone, that was honest enough with her, to transition over to Jazz, I still would support her career 💯%, and had I been around back then, I would have went to herself, just because I love her, she's right up there with the way I feel about Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, and Tina Turner, are my all three favorites, but they're not the only people, I like hearing, or the only people who I have mad respect for, in the business. Her and Redd were meant to be best friends, they just complimented each other's work, when they were acting together, like two shoes, it just fits, as though they should've really always beetogether, when it came to acting(I don't understand why she wasn't in Sanford and Son, and she could have played the role of Elizabeth, Fred's wife, and Esther's sister, and they could have wrote it with her being alive, instead of her being his widow), such as Grammy award-winning music artist, are, when it comes to sticking to their producers, as a matter of fact, a lot of the arguing that they did in the movie, Harlem nights, what met Eddie Murphy, write the sick time for them, the "Royal Family", because when they were filming the movie, they had him on his knees laughing, in their trailer, because they truly, cannot stop nagging, and fighting with each other,like two old couples, and they were dead serious, and this was them all the time, but at the same time everyone knew, how much they loved and cared about each other, strictly as friends like brother and sister, and with that, Eddie was like, this is beyond funny, y'all got to do some more stuff together, and that's why he wrote The pilot, for the sitcom, Royal family for them, sadly Red Foxx would die, after just 3 months of filming together. 😦😥

Good for her, and Eddie Murphy has always been an evil person.

@dddddadadad1796

2 жыл бұрын

What the he** does Eddie Murphy have to do with ANYTHING?!