and his brother Chic also performed. Thelma, a successful artist, performer and teacher, toured internationally and taught Afro-Cuban dance. The Black Historical Society of BC awarded her a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. Chic was a performer who eventually went on to be the first Black person to work for BC Hydro. Youngest brother Sy was a singer and member of the band Night Train Revue. The four siblings' mother was Leona Risby, owner of the Country Club Inn. Leonard Lane: Fountain Chapel member and community activist. Leonard joined the staff of the British Columbia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People in 1958 and later worked as a treasurer for the Unity Credit Union. Nora Hendrix: Nora, grandmother of guitarist and performer Jimi Hendrix, immigrated to Vancouver in 1911 from Knoxville, Tennessee and lived in and around Hogan's Alley. She was an active community member, co-founding the Fountain Chapel and working as a cook at Vie's Chicken and Steak House. Though he lived in Seattle, Jimi regularly visited his grandmother and family in Vancouver. The Crump Twins: performance duo. Ronnie and Robert Crump were prominent Vancouver entertainers, performing at many local clubs and theatres during the mid 1900s. The brothers were inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2019. Cultural references The history of the area and Vancouver's Black community was explored in Cornelia Wyngaarden's and Andrea Fatona's 1994 documentary "Hogan's Alley" Writer Wayde Compton paid tribute to Hogan's Alley in his poem Rune. In 2007, flowers spelling out "Hogan's Alley Welcomes You" were placed in the remaining Hogan's Alley area by The Vancouver Flower Brigade and Laura Marsden 2011's Spirit Rising Festival and East End Blues and All That Jazz event honoured the history of Vancouver's Black community through music and residents' stories. The alley was recreated in virtual form by Stan Douglas in the 2014 interactive work Circa 1948. The alley was mentioned in the 2014 poem "A Love Letter or Considering Reconciliation in Canada" by Juliane Okot Bitek. Black Strathcona released a number of historical videos in 2014 highlighting several Hogan's Alley residents. In 2014, Canada Post printed several thousand stamps featuring Hogan's Alley residents Nora Hendrix and Fielding William Spotts for Black History Month. The 63 cent stamp was released in tandem with a stamp paying tribute to Africville in Halifax. A number of prominent Hogan's Alley residents were honoured in a mural