Esther Elizabeth Rolle (November 8, 1920 – November 17, 1998) was a Bahamian American actress. Rolle is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom Maude, for two seasons ...

A native of The Bronx, actor Jimmie Walker began his career in 1969 as a young standup comic. Five years later, the youthful comedian landed the role of J.J. Evans on television producer Norman Lear’s ...

Esther Rolle’s journey from a promising child actor to one of the most beloved sitcom stars of the 1970s is an inspiring story. Born to Bahamian parents in Florida, Rolle took a chance by pursuing an ...

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, was founded on January 16, 1920, at Howard University with the principles of scholarship, service, sisterhood, and finer womanhood. Created with the original ...

The actor, whose death was announced this week, made it known he didn’t like the direction the hit show was going. His character was then killed off. By Jonathan Abrams It was the role John Amos had ...

When I interviewed actress Esther Rolle during her Boston run in a Huntington Theatre production of Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” as someone who first saw her in the 1970s sitcom “Good ...

John Amos taught me what it was like to grow up with a father in the house – and to be one. That's because Amos – who died in August at the age of 84, though his death wasn't disclosed publicly until ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — John Amos, the actor best known for his role as the father on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and his Emmy-nominated performance in the groundbreaking miniseries “Roots,” has ...

John Amos died on August 21 in Los Angeles of natural causes, his representative confirmed on Tuesday. He was 84. “With a career spanning over five decades, Amos leaves behind a legacy of ...

LOS ANGELES — John Amos, an actor with Colorado ties who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries ...