For the 2021 BET Awards, host Taraji P. Henson introduced the City Girls by sharing a brief history of twerking. Her makeup, hair and outfit during the historical breakdown channeled 1930s cartoon ...

It’s not widely known, but Esther Jones — a black Harlem singer who performed regularly at the Cotton Club as Baby Esther — was an inspiration for the beloved cartoon sex symbol Betty Boop. This ...

Just yesterday, I wrote about cartoon characters that were particularly popular with all the around the way girls. And Betty Boop made the list. Perhaps so many Black girls from neighborhoods from ...

(KFVS) - February is Black History Month, and in the spotlight for February 15, 2016 is Esther Jones, the inspiration for the iconic cartoon character Betty Boop. Jones was a jazz singer in Harlem who ...

On Aug. 9, 1930 — 95 years ago Saturday — the cartoon character of Betty Boop made her debut with the release of the Fleischer Studios animated short “Dizzy Dishes.” Except this wasn’t quite the Betty ...

The new Broadway-bound “Boop! The Musical” imagines what might happen if the early 1930s animation film-short sensation, born at Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount, found herself in modern ...

Betty Boop has been as magnetic and iconic a cartoon character as any, but most people are likely blind to her messy origins. Earlier today, Mashable did a piece on “The real Betty Boop,” a Bronx-born ...