Just Your Average Black Woman Going Through Life
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…
Today is Juneteenth. It’s a holiday that celebrates the June 19,1865 freedom of the last enslaved Black Americans. This meant that all Americans were “free.” Here we are 159 years from this date. A day when all in America at the time was considered ‘free.’ So, as we honor a holiday that follows the…
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…
Rihanna is a woman of many ventures. She just released Fenty Hair this week after previously starting Fenty, Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, and Savage X Fenty. But she started her career off as a singer. With 8 albums released over an 11-year period, she is worth celebrating today in this month that is also…
Yesterday, I watched an interview of actor Wendell Pierce on Reverend Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show. The discussion was to shed light on the case of the Fearless Fund. A venture capital fund created to provide grants to Black women owned businesses. Well, a circuit court in Miami ruled it discriminatory according to the 1866…
Although she is no longer living today, Barbara Jordan is a name we should remember. She was a lawyer and a politician. As someone born in 1936, she lived during a time where one could not freely disclose who they were if outside of societal norms. Being a Black person in America during this…
It’s been a few years now since Mariah Carey has put out new music, but with such a great catalog of music, she doesn’t need to. Many fail to recognize her for her songwriting skills as she wrote most of her hits. She reaps many benefits for writing as well as singing her own…
There are many men who navigate the world. Many of them set goals to be great and live life with a purpose. Many of them eventually become great in the eyes of those they nurture into being great. This includes their kids, nieces, nephews, friends, and any other person they choose to love and…
It is now the month of June. We have Father’s Day, Juneteenth, Black Music Month and LGBTQ+ Pride Month among other awareness days. These are events/people that don’t get much recognition. The good fathers who are actively raising their kids. The realization that with the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery in 1863, the last…
How do you know when it’s time to unplug? What do you do to make it happen? I can recall a time a little over 20 years ago when the warm weather and long hours of daylight signaled a craving to be outside. At this age, I was a young teenager and couldn’t stay out…