Singer Alberta Hunter had an extraordinary life. At age twelve, she left her Memphis home for Chicago, where she got her start at a rough club called Dago Frank’s. She moved to New York City in the ...

Cookin’ at the Cookery. Singer Alberta Hunter had an extraordinary life. She left her Memphis home at the age of twelve for Chicago, where she got her start at a rough club called Dago Frank’s.

On a recent rainy Monday night rehearsal of Jewelle Gomez’s new play Leaving the Blues, two actors ran the lines of their first scene together. Michael Gene Sullivan (recently on stage in She Loves Me ...

Alberta Hunter had to leave the spotlight to get back in it. When she quit show business in the 1950s, with the blues style that had brought her international recognition years before no longer in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A collage of newsprint clippings, ...