TheHistoryMakers

TheHistoryMakers

The HistoryMakers is a national 501 (c)(3) non-profit research and educational institution committed to preserving and making widely accessible the untold personal stories of both well-known and unsung African Americans. Through the media and a series of user-friendly products, services and events, The HistoryMakers enlightens, entertains, and educates the public, helping to refashion a more inclusive record of American history.

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  • @Nell_3
    @Nell_317 сағат бұрын

    I’ll never hear the bells and Baby I’m for real STILL hits hard.😢Their harmonies were 🔥🔥and Always on point.🤴🏽🤴🏽🤴🏽🤴🏽So happy to know Mr. Dixon is alive and well to tell the story🥰God Bless him and for the other members and Mr. Marvin Gaye, RIP. You were all such beautiful treasures.🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

  • @derrickkimmons8785
    @derrickkimmons878522 сағат бұрын

    Both Women had great Posture👠💄💅🫦🌹❤️🙏

  • @derrickkimmons8785
    @derrickkimmons878522 сағат бұрын

    I Like Diahann Carroll's Laugh❤😊

  • @ladoradavis9136
    @ladoradavis91365 күн бұрын

    Thank You so much!! Because of your love for God, and the church, you have inspired so many people both here and abroad. You and your husband Dr. Floyd H. Flake are amazing trendsetters and visionaries. May God bless you and your family always and forever.💞💞💞🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @misskitty8376
    @misskitty83765 күн бұрын

    Musiq Soulchild did a great job!

  • @misskitty8376
    @misskitty83765 күн бұрын

    I love myself some Smokey Robinson

  • @misskitty8376
    @misskitty83765 күн бұрын

    Smokey looking at Howard like he wanna say…stop,just stop!

  • @misskitty8376
    @misskitty83765 күн бұрын

    It’s the thought that counts.

  • @lillianthomas1617
    @lillianthomas16175 күн бұрын

    Eartha Kitt at 81 years old can drop it like it’s hot, b4; MADEA. Ijs 😂🤣😅 I love her! Great charm and well defined in her own way! Yeah

  • @Fay-xe5yq
    @Fay-xe5yq6 күн бұрын

    My thoughts on this magnificient couple will always be that they were afraid to admit even to themselves that love came quickly to them. The reluctance to accept this was most likely the subconcious fear of ruining their business relationship if the love faded. As one listens to the lyrics and beautiful chords that they so effortlessly weave together one can almost feel the emotions flowing into their very beings. The lyrics come from the soul and each line is an unspoken message between them. ❤❤ REST IN PEACE NICK AND NEVER STOP WHISPERING WORDS OF WISDOM IN YOUR TRUE LOVE'S EAR. ❤❤ PRAYERS AND LOVE TO YOU VALERIE AND YOUR GIRLS. ❤❤

  • @stephenhosmer9444
    @stephenhosmer944412 күн бұрын

    Of course Eartha is right about the racism here during Apartheid in the Old South in 1950. She is one of our amazing public-adored stars--far more interesting than almost all of them. Her stories are endlessly fascinating.

  • @stephenhosmer9444
    @stephenhosmer944412 күн бұрын

    Eartha is right about Europe with its intelligent people; we have so few of these in America--and WHAT they read is hardly worth knowing about. I love Europe, too--all of the countries over there. Eartha is a real darling, who's honest.

  • @dionnelong
    @dionnelong13 күн бұрын

    Thank you! 🙏🏽 It feels so nice to hear my name, Dionne. This lady is a soft strong spirit! It’s a blessing to know that people are friends, or siblings in Christ! ❤ I was anointed to have a soft spirit, but standing is required in putting on the whole arm-our! I love you. Agape! ⌚️4️⃣🕊️. Getting armoured up right! 🙏🏽. God loves us all so much, yet he found a way to make life work for each of us! Waiting for answered prayer must be coming in the Dionne, not the Long, because it’s the longest! So long, but God is the love in us! In the world. 🌎 Period. God is with you! 💕I remember the very first time I saw Dionne! She was on Johnny Carson show! I was 10, 11?! No no, no no! Jesus is the way! Amen! 🙏🏽 Jimmy Carter was President! God’s will be done, and may prayers be answered and stay answered. We all deserve it! Agape! 🌾💕🌾 The words of her songs are strong and pure, and like she said, this is the black I was born knowing. I thought we were equal! 🟰 Amen. 🙏🏽 ⏰ A little outnumbered, and under-favored! An L. A. cry did what?! Eve?! Dianne Carol, you were always before us! Learning to love ourselves is the because of the greatest love of all! Yes.

  • @ciscotheinkboi
    @ciscotheinkboi13 күн бұрын

    What he says at 50:33 onwards is so touching and very inspiring. I wanna use this part whenever I make a video about him. Yes I met Mr. Harry Belafonte in St Jude in Montgomery Alabama, back in 2012.

  • @JoeJoe-ng9qb
    @JoeJoe-ng9qb15 күн бұрын

    Wow! Powerful voices! And we miss Gwen so much, too. Great human beings with so much talent!!!

  • @IamVision924
    @IamVision92416 күн бұрын

    Great tribute for Nick Ashford..🔥🔥 I sampled one of their songs and it’s one of my biggest records. Ms. Valerie you and Mr. Nick Ashford were geniuses for the classic hits you wrote.. 💙👏🏽

  • @ProcJimi
    @ProcJimi17 күн бұрын

    YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL, Dionne! Thank you for EVERYTHING!

  • @isabelleb6818
    @isabelleb681818 күн бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂

  • @isabelleb6818
    @isabelleb681818 күн бұрын

    3 songs in 3 hours...

  • @isabelleb6818
    @isabelleb681818 күн бұрын

    Incredible...

  • @dira9234
    @dira923418 күн бұрын

    This man touched the world. Thank you Mr Gordy.

  • @MikeBell-eu3zp
    @MikeBell-eu3zp18 күн бұрын

    One of my favorite new channel was PBS i would watch it because of Gwen i miss her, to me she was beautiful.

  • @bigduke54
    @bigduke5419 күн бұрын

    P.S. 21 legend

  • @AmericanObserver-kq7ye
    @AmericanObserver-kq7ye19 күн бұрын

    Wow! It’s good to see Merald “Bubba” Knight. Gladys Knight & The Pips we’re on point! Bubba seemed to be a respectful and kind brother to Gladys. My favorite song from the group is Midnight Train To Georgia. My (late) father is from Georgia, and I am proud to have inherited the Gladys Knight & The Pips 8-Track Tape with Midnight Train To Georgia. It’s my collector’s item. 👩🏽‍🦱

  • @TahariBlue
    @TahariBlue19 күн бұрын

    As great as they are, they are still so unsung! They are two of the greatest writers and performers of all tine!

  • @GreeeenThunder
    @GreeeenThunder19 күн бұрын

    i know you watched this video mr jameson

  • @learhaynes1002
    @learhaynes100223 күн бұрын

    R.I.P. to Nick Ashford. Props and continued blessings to Valerie Simpson.

  • @dorrisurseryhobson9333
    @dorrisurseryhobson933325 күн бұрын

    Lovely I just wish they'd sang my favorite Happy Endings ❤😮❤

  • @terryarnold9154
    @terryarnold915426 күн бұрын

    Thank you so much for posting this and I would also like to thank everyone involved in the recording of it, it really does feel like a labour of love. The interviewer is excellent and informed and the audience seem engrossed by everything that is said. The music is wonderful and each artist interprets Ashford &Simpsons work with great skill, love and respect. I was lucky to see them perform in London many years ago and they were fabulous, Valerie is a fine musician and singer,and Nick Ashford was a great lyricist, as she so wisely said, their body of work will live on a long time after they are gone. Thanks again to everyone involved in this project,I was moved to tears more than once and reminded why we love and respect our musicians so much.

  • @tyleranyways
    @tyleranyways27 күн бұрын

    9:26😂

  • @marliseisrael3017
    @marliseisrael3017Ай бұрын

    Detroit 💗

  • @reginaldkelly6041
    @reginaldkelly6041Ай бұрын

    She was in phoenominal shape for her age!!! I would love to meet a lady like her.

  • @petrayonathan1550
    @petrayonathan1550Ай бұрын

    I was born on Christmas Day in 2003. Just 5 years on my Christmas Day's birthday in 2008, Eartha Kitt has dies. I'm really sad about her last interview before she passed away. REST IN PEACE AND I LOVE YOU, EARTHA KITT ❤😢😭🙏✝️🌹

  • @Lucid-1111
    @Lucid-1111Ай бұрын

    They determine how many prisons to make by how many 3rd graders cannot read.

  • @ernestmalonkane8668
    @ernestmalonkane8668Ай бұрын

    I love Nick and Valerie and I'll Always! ❤

  • @ChimekaErica
    @ChimekaEricaАй бұрын

    May our pains shape us to be useful tools. Eartha, may your soul find perfect rest in The Lord. One could see someone deeply hurt. Your daughter is beautiful and strong. Good to have this interview before her passing.

  • @KenDe25
    @KenDe25Ай бұрын

    Miss Valerie Simpson, true icon, much love Queen! Rest on in power King Nick!!! #SOLID!

  • @MichaelKomlo
    @MichaelKomloАй бұрын

    What a class act and astute Lady!

  • @dolladolldoll2862
    @dolladolldoll2862Ай бұрын

    What an amazing woman

  • @SophiaPerkins-jk8vx
    @SophiaPerkins-jk8vxАй бұрын

    Wow what a treat

  • @user-kd4wy8iq2i
    @user-kd4wy8iq2iАй бұрын

    My boyfriend of 3 years died September 21st 2023 from Cancer and Pneumonia. He was only 45 years old. The love of my life. Valerie I know how it feels to lose the love of your life. Its a pain that never goes away. I'm so proud of your strength. You are a true inspiration. Rest in Peace Samuel Mandel Moody 1978-2023 Rest in Peace Nicholas Ashford 1941-2010. Gone to Soon

  • @douglaspenick7583
    @douglaspenick7583Ай бұрын

    I heard Roland Hayes in the mid '60s sing his cycle on the life of Jesus Christ. His concentration, musicality and simply the enormous integrity of his singing were profoundly and unforgettably moving.

  • @robertpaul2855
    @robertpaul2855Ай бұрын

    My dad loves BB KING

  • @Dana_inc
    @Dana_incАй бұрын

    They would crucified her now for cheating! People act like they’re perfect now! This just shows us all no one is perfect! Very classy lady respect her honesty!

  • @TranzVangal
    @TranzVangalАй бұрын

    The interviewer and Della look like twins😅

  • @dharkknight4747
    @dharkknight4747Ай бұрын

    Yall noticed the number of big shots and social influencers in the audience? Bro was/is the man!

  • @maxineelizabethhendry7138
    @maxineelizabethhendry7138Ай бұрын

    Brilliant and beautiful ❤️❤️xxx

  • @TranzVangal
    @TranzVangalАй бұрын

    She's #Hilarious 🎉🎉🎉🎉Such amazing person she became through all her pain, what an #intelligent #soul ,rest in peace ,we all have light and darkness within us! Try to keep the light alive #Blessings😊😊😊😊

  • @jerometremble4770
    @jerometremble4770Ай бұрын

    Man!!!!!!!🏆🏆🏆 We miss you Our Family do

  • @rhondamolix-bailey9743
    @rhondamolix-bailey9743Ай бұрын

    This is the most extreme example of the "brown paper bag" group of women that I've ever seen and it makes me sad.