History

Muhammad Ali and James Earl Jones after a performance of The Great White Hope in 1968. I wish I had found this picture for our Vintage Black Glamour Birthday party yesterday (Jan 17th!)

Haile Selassie and Joe Louis, 1935, by the phenomenal Mexican painter, caricaturist and illustrator Miguel Covarrubias (more here). Photo: Library of Congress via Art Knowledge News.

Josephine Baker urging Joe Louis to sing with her during her opening performance at the Club Des Champs Elysees in Paris in the early 1950s.

Muhammad Ali and his then wife Veronica chat with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis at a party at the Rainbow Room in New York City to kick off the Robert F. Kennedy Tennis Tournament on August 26, 1977.

Boxing legend Joe Louis, photographed in 1941 by Carl Van Vechten at Greenwood Lake, NJ. Photo: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.