Black History Month: An Ode to Pam

If you know me, you know I love me some Pam Grier. She's the general profile icon on www.naturaldivaworld.ning.com. I have a portrait of her in my room and when I want to feel sexy or confident, I talk to Pam before I jet. She exudes individuality (with that bangin ass fro), sexuality, confidence, and freedom. She wasn't afraid to express herself through her art and made Blaxploitation films a classic movie genre for later generations and a force to be reckoned with! After all she is the 1st real female action star!
Here's Wiki's Bio of Pam:
Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She became famous in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation films such as 1974's Foxy Brown. Her career was revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino's film Jackie Brown. She is one of a few African-American actresses to receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.

Grier was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the daughter of Gwendolyn Sylvia (née Samuels), a homemaker and nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier, who worked as a mechanic and Technical Sergeant in the United States Air Force. She has one sister and one brother.^[3] At age 6, Grier was raped by two boys when she was left unattended at her aunt's house. "It took so long to deal with the pain of that," she says, "You try to deal with it, but you never really get over it," she adds. "And not just me; my family endured so much guilt and anger that something like that happened to me...

Grier moved to Los Angeles, California in 1967, where she was initially hired as a receptionist at the American International Pictures (AIP) company. She was discovered by director Jack Hill, who cast her in his women in prison films The Big Doll House (1971), and The Big Bird Cage (1972).

Grier has never married and has no children. She dated basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar during the early 1970s and had a six-month affair with actor/comedian Richard Pryor around 1976–77. She was also romantically linked to actor/comedian Freddie Prinze in the 1970s.^[6] In 1998, she was engaged to music executive Kevin Evans, but the engagement was terminated in 1999. From 2000 to 2008, she dated marketing executive Peter Hempel.