Bojangles

She'd met Kwementyaye two and a half years earlier, in Bojangles bar in Alice Springs.

Australia's dark heart Will Storr 2010

Black newspapers instantly christened it “the greatest game ever played”—which was the phrase that Bojangles Robinson embossed on the travel bags that the tap dancer gave to Paige and Jones a week later when the rivalry was renewed.

Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

Black newspapers instantly christened it “the greatest game ever played”—which was the phrase that Bojangles Robinson embossed on the travel bags that the tap dancer gave to Paige and Jones a week later when the rivalry was renewed.

Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

Black newspapers instantly christened it “the greatest game ever played”—which was the phrase that Bojangles Robinson embossed on the travel bags that the tap dancer gave to Paige and Jones a week later when the rivalry was renewed.

Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

Black newspapers instantly christened it “the greatest game ever played”—which was the phrase that Bojangles Robinson embossed on the travel bags that the tap dancer gave to Paige and Jones a week later when the rivalry was renewed.

Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

Richmond, Va., was a thriving, multicultural quarter known as the Harlem of the South, with the likes of Duke Ellington and the native son Bill Robinson, known as Bojangles, headlining at the Hippodrome Theater.

NYT > Home Page By JULIE BESONEN 2011

Bill Robinson a k a Bojangles in "The Big Broadcast of 1936"

NYT > Home Page By ALASTAIR MACAULAY 2011

For decades, James Kriegsmann was a photographer of stars like Bill Robinson, known as Bojangles, left, and Cab Calloway.

NYT > Home Page 2010

For decades, James Kriegsmann was a photographer of stars like Bill Robinson, known as Bojangles, left, and Cab Calloway.

NYT > Home Page 2010

Vivien Leigh in "Gone With the Wind" or when an avuncular Bill Robinson (a k a Bojangles) teaches Shirley Temple how to dance up a flight of stairs in "The Little Colonel."

David E's Fablog 2009