Ellen Levitt

Baby, Baby, It’s Berry Gordy’s Birthday 2 min read

• Music

Baby, Baby, It’s Berry Gordy’s Birthday

Ellen Levitt 4 years ago

🍾Berry Gordy, born November 28, 1929, is best known as the founder of Motown Records. A proud native son of Detroit, Berry (actually Berry III)... Read More

Happy Birthday Little Willie John You Gave Us Fever 2 min read

• Music

Happy Birthday Little Willie John You Gave Us Fever

Ellen Levitt 4 years ago

🎂William Edward John (aka Little Willie John)(born November 15, 1937) in Cullendale, Arkansas, but moved to Detroit as a youngster, with his parents and nine... Read More

Ozier Muhammad’s Photographs at the Keith De Lellis Gallery 6 min read

• Art

Ozier Muhammad’s Photographs at the Keith De Lellis Gallery

Ellen Levitt 4 years ago

In late October, Ozier Muhammad began our conversation at the Keith de Lellis Gallery in midtown Manhattan by contemplating his college years. “One of my professors suggested... Read More

Birthday Greetings Star Trekkie Whoopi Goldberg 2 min read

• Media

Birthday Greetings Star Trekkie Whoopi Goldberg

Ellen Levitt 4 years ago

🍾Whoopi Goldberg, (aka Caryn Elaine Johnson), born November 13, 1955, in Manhattan — her growing up turf was in a housing project in the Chelsea section... Read More

Happy Birthday Hammond B-3 Organ Booker T. Jones! 2 min read

• Music

Happy Birthday Hammond B-3 Organ Booker T. Jones!

Ellen Levitt 4 years ago

🍾Booker T. Jones, born November 11, 1944, in Memphis, Tennessee, is one of Soul and Rock music’s premier musicians — a multi-instrumentalist and a musical... Read More

Happy Birthday Always Go with the Feeling Hannibal Lokumbe 2 min read

• Music

Happy Birthday Always Go with the Feeling Hannibal Lokumbe

Ellen Levitt 4 years ago

🍾Hannibal Lokumbe (aka Marvin Peterson), born November 11, 1948, is a composer and jazz trumpeter. Over the past 4 decades, he has composed classical works for... Read More

Here! Here! Happy Birthday Greetings Benjamin Banneker 2 min read

• News

Here! Here! Happy Birthday Greetings Benjamin Banneker

Ellen Levitt 4 years ago

🎂In his time, Benjamin Banneker, born November 9, 1731, was something of a Renaissance man. He was: a surveyor; a writer who penned Almanacs and Ephemeris... Read More

Birthday Greetings Zadie Adeline Smith 1 min read

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Birthday Greetings Zadie Adeline Smith

Ellen Levitt 4 years ago

🎂Zadie Adeline Smith, born October 25, 1975  in London, England, is an British novelist, essayist, and writer who has won in multiple awards for her best... Read More