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Victor Sejour – France’s Most Popular Playwright in the 1850s

March 17, 2025

By Dannie Gore Victor Sejour, New Orleans Mulatto, rose to be France’s most popular playwright in the 1850s. Born in 1817, he won distinction at the age of 17 with his first poem. In 1836 his parents sent him to Paris to escape America’s color prejudice. Here he became private secretary to Louis Napoleon, later […]

Tom Hanks, Saving Private Ryan & The Truth

September 8, 2021

By Dannie Gore Sr. The 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion VLAWhen actor Tom Hanks was asked why there were no black soldiers shown in the movie “SavingPrivate Ryan,” he said that there had been none in the area. He was mistaken. The 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion VLA Very Low Altitude (colored) was unique at Normandy for […]

Josephine Baker Served as a World World II Spy

November 29, 2020

Josephine Baker became a spy for the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of France and smuggled intelligence coded on her sheet music to the resistance. In 1941 Baker travelled to the French colonies in North Africa, the reason stated for the trip was her health. But Baker was actually there to establish a liaison […]