Today is the birthday of Willie Tyler (b. 1940). While not America’s first African American ventriloquist (there have been several stretching back to the early 19th century), he has been the reigning artist in that niche at least since the early 1970s. Born in Alabama and raised in Detroit, he was inspired to take up […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:39AM on September 8, 2013