Born on this day – Nikki Giovanni:

 

Nikki Giovanni

Writer

June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024

Credits:
 
Written work:
 

100 Best African American Poems (2010); A Dialogue with James Baldwin (1973); A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter (2017); A Library (2022); A Poetic Equation: Conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker (1974); Acolytes (2007); Adele Sebastian: Intro to Fine (poems) Woman in the Moon (1985); Appalachian Elders: A Warm Hearth Sampler (1991); Artemis 2017 (Academic Journal of southwest Virginia) (2017); Bicycles: Love Poems (2009); Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018); Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968); Black Feeling, Black Talk / Black Judgement (1970); Black Judgement (1968); Blues: For All the Changes (1999); Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid (2013); Continuum: New and Selected Poems by Mari Evans (2012); Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978); Ego-Tripping and Other Poems For Young People (1973); Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People Revised Edition (1993); Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2008); I Am Loved (2018); Knoxville, Tennessee (1994); Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship (2008); Love Poems (1997); Make Me Rain (2020); My House (1972); Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971); Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories about the Keepers of Our Traditions (1994); Heav'nly Tidings From the Afric Muse: The Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley by Richard Kigel (2017); Night Comes Softly: An Anthology of Black Female Voices (1970); Racism 101 / essays (1994); Sacred Cows ... and Other Edibles (essays) (1988); Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems (1995); The Abandoned Baobob: The Autobiography of a Woman (1991); Poetry Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2005); Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems (2002); Re: Creation (1970); Rosa (2005); Spin a Soft Black Song (1971); The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (2003); The Genie in The Jar (1996); The Girls in the Circle (Just for You!) (2004); The Grasshopper's Song: An Aesop's Fable (2008); The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni (2003); The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996); The Sun Is So Quiet (1996); The Women and The Men (1975); Those Who Ride The Night Winds (1983); Vacation Time: Poems for Children (1980); Woman (1978).

 

Music:
 

Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978); Every Tone A Testimony (2001); Legacies: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (1976); Like a Ripple on a Pond (1973); Nikki Giovanni and the New York Community Choir (1993); The Gospel According To Nikki Giovanni (2022); The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection (2002); The Reason I Like Chocolate (1976); The Way I Feel (1975); Truth Is On Its Way (1971).

 

Movies and television:
 

27th NAACP Image Awards (1996); 29th NAACP Image Awards (1998); American Masters (2017); An Evening with Nikki Giovanni (2005); Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People (2009); BET Awards 2014: Genius Talks (2014); Black Journal (1969); Brooks People (2017); By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem (2020); Camera Three (1972); Channel 4 News (2024); Chester Himes, Reflections (1972); Def Poetry (2002–2005); Democracy Now! (2012–2013); Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 (1998); Get Real! Wise Women Speak (2011); Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2023); HBCUs: 2nd Acts (2022); How Do Your Children Grow? (1972); Independent Lens (2021); Legends Ball (2006); Love Life (2021); Maya Angelou And Still I Rise (2016); Mr. Soul! (2018); MU/T/T/ER (2022); Muhammad Ali (2021); Number One with a Bullet (2008); Overheard (2018); Say It Loud (2008); Soul! (1971–1972); Sp!t (2006); Spirit to Spirit: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (1986); What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (2019); Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso (2021); Tavis Smiley (2007–2014); Tell About the South: Voices in Black and White (1998); The ABCs of Book Banning (2023); The Amazing Nina Simone (2015); The Final Genocide (2021); The History Makers (2005); The Mike Douglas Show (1974–1975); The Poets' Café (1995); The Rock Newman Show (2013); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1972); Toni Morrison et les fantômes de l'Amérique (2020); Touré Show (2017); Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel 2 (2011); What Ever Happened to Hip Hop? (2009).

Born on this day – Robert Trebor:

 

Robert Trebor

Actor

Director

June 7, 1953 – March 11, 2025

Credits:

52 Pick-Up (1986); Baywatch (1989); Boomtown (2003); Dark Justice (1992); Dying on the Edge (2001); Empty Nest (1989); Face of Fire (1959); Frank's Place (1988); Gorp (1980); Hail, Caesar! (2016); Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994); Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1999); Hip-Hop Headstrong (2010); Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004); JoAnne (2011); Joe Bash (1986); Magnum Force (1973); Making Mr. Right (1987); Meet Market (2004); Miami Vice (1985 / 1988); Murphy Brown (1989); My Demon Lover (1987); Night Court (1990); Out of the Darkness (1985); Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1991); Raise Your Voice (2004); Simon & Simon (1986); Tales from the Crypt (1992); Talk Radio (1988); The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (1999); The Devil's Rejects (2005); The First Time (1981); The Nutt House (1992); The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985); The Sex O'Clock News (1985); The Shadow (1994); The Streets of San Francisco (1973); The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993); Turk 182 (1985); Universal Soldier (1992); Wedding Daze (2004); Xena: Warrior Princess (1996–1999).

On this day in movie history - Armored Car Robbery (1950)

Armored Car Robbery

directed by Richard Fleischer,

written by Gerald Drayson Adams and Earl Felton,

based on a story by Robert Leeds and Robert Angus,

was released in the United States on June 7, 1950.

Music by Roy Webb and Paul Sawtell.

Cast:

Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Douglas Fowley, Steve Brodie, Don McGuire, Don Haggerty, James Flavin, Gene Evans.

On this day in movie history - Delusion (1991)

Delusion

directed by Carl Colpaert,

written by Carl Colpaert and Kurt Voss,

was released in the United States on June 7, 1991.

Music by Barry Adamson.

Cast:

Jim Metzler, Jennifer Rubin, Kyle Secor, Jerry Orbach, Robert Costanzo, Tracey Walter, Barbara Alyn Woods, Amanda Horan Kennedy, Angelina Fiordellisi, Raymond Singer, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Kevin West, Darryl Cox, Bob McCracken, Pat Reilly, Frankie Maiolo, Tamara Landry, Rudolph Willrich, Brendan McKane, John W. Hart, Rachel Gebler, Chitra F. Mojtabai, Robert Moore, Carol Lang, Laura Lang, Craig Sexton, Richard Jordan, Seth Willenson, Kristin Stuart, Albert Albala, James Magowan, Charles Ayers, Jeffrey Madison, Maria Gulezian, Roxanne Thompson, Tony Markes, Marc James, Lurezia Covacevich, Suzan Nesbit Hiett, Tracy Collins, María de Souza.

On this day in movie history - American Cinema (June 1995 to August 1996)

American Cinema

13-episode documentary series that ran from June 7, 1995 – August 22, 1996.

Episode titles:

The Hollywood Style; The Studio System; The Star; The Western; Romantic Comedy; The Combat Film; Film Noir; Film in the Television Age; The Film School Generation; The Edge of Hollywood; Film Language; Writing and Thinking about Film; Classic Hollywood Style Today. 

On this day in movie history - The Prophecy: Uprising (2005)

 

The Prophecy: Uprising

directed and written by Joel Soisson,

based on a story by John Sullivan,

was released in the United States on June 7, 2005.

Music by Joseph LoDuca.

 
Cast:

John Light, Sean Pertwee, Dan Chiriac, Boris Petroff, Alin Cristea, Kari Wuhrer, Florinel Popescu, Dan Astileanu, Doug Bradley, Georgina Rylance, Catalina Alexandru, Jason London, Ichim Luceafarul, Flori Truscan, Claudia Templeton, Alexandru Virgil Platon, Adrian Ciobanu, Adriana Butoi, Mihai Verbintschi, David Aparu, Smaranda Popescu, Stephen Billington, Snowy Highfield, Nick Phillips, Nelu Caragea, Lucian Iordache, Dicu Aurel, Adrian Pavlovschi, Vasilescu Valentin.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960)

 

M Squad
Season 3. Episode 37.

Episode entitled: Fire in the Sky.

Released June 7, 1960.

Directed by Dann Cahn.

Written by Robert Quaid.

Music by Benny Carter.

 
Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Rita Lynn, Richard Deacon, Frank Wilcox, Austin Green, Theodore Newton, Jerry O’Sullivan, Tom Monroe, Philip Chapin.