Mike’s Blog Round-Up

On this day in 1938, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson was born. Mr. Williamson is a former Marine and Oakland Raiders/Kansas City Chiefs football star who rose to prominence as one of the first Black male action stars of the blaxploitation genre through films like Hammer (1972) and Three the Hard Way (1974).

If you know his work (and shame on you if you don't) you probably know him as the title character in the crime drama Black Caesar (1973) and its sequel Hell Up in Harlem (1973). If you're a trivia nerd...