James Baskett, the first black male to win an Academy Award died on this day July 9 in 1948. Baskett was born on February 16, 1904, in Indianapolis, Indiana. After completing his primary studies, he studied pharmacology briefly but abandoned it for financial reasons. He left Indiana to pursue an acting career and arrived in […]

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