Just Your Average Black Woman Going Through Life
Today is the day. One where you may be traveling. Some will be preparing to cook. Others will just be relaxing. Whether or not one of these describes you today, having a film as a backdrop can help get you in the Thanksgiving mood. Every year Halloween movies are grouped and promoted and then…
Love is a beautiful thing and develops within different relationships. There’s love between a parent and child. Love between spouses. There’s love between friends. And there’s love between you and a host of other family members. The relationships we have can be very precious and it’s good to nurture it. ‘Tis the season of…
Tomorrow is Halloween! It’s a holiday I don’t celebrate as much now that I’m older. But it’s one that I have many memories of. I can remember having a Halloween party at my house and my older cousin dressed as Freddy Krueger. Of course, all of us small kids had heart attacks. I remember…
This past weekend, a few great musical superstars were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame including Mary J. Blige, A Tribe Called Quest, and Cher. Mary J. Blige, the Queen of Hip Hop and R&B is one of my favorites of all time. When you think about her 30+ year career…
Happy Fall everyone! The season is here. The season when the temperature starts to cool down and you spend a little more time indoors. I myself dislike the cooler temperatures, but make the most of it until the Spring and Summer arrives again. When inside, I get more time to catch up on television…
As we all know the 2024 Olympic Games are happening right now in Paris. You have people from different countries competing in various sports trying to bring home the Gold. For Team USA, many gold medals have already been won and this brings so much joy to us all. These athletes go to the…
A hip hop legend who puts out songs with a message is Nasir Jones. To the public he is known as Nas. For those who are true fans of this genre of music, he is often spoken about, but to the public his name is not mentioned enough. His records of speaks of the…
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a Raisin in the Sun? This is a line from the poem “Harlem: A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes. “A Raisin in the Sun,” is the name of a play written by Lorraine Hansberry. She took this title from the poem. She was…
The Jackson family place in history will forever be none for generations to come. One of its members is the great Janet Jackson. As the youngest of the bunch, she has created music for four decades, but for today I will focus on two of them. The mid 1980’s was when her star power…
Beyonce’s Renaissance (Act 1) album was a dedication to the house music and ballroom scene. On her Renaissance World Tour there was a part of the show where her dancers engaged in voguing. She brought it to the stages in the U.S. and in Europe, forcing the people to get comfortable with a lifestyle…