Just Your Average Black Woman Going Through Life
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…
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…
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…
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…
Getting older brings on a different attitude because you become more secure with who you are and the respect you require. I watched the video of singer/actress Kelly Rowland, getting into a minor verbal spat with security at the Cannes Film Festival. Recently, Kelly also made the news for walking out on hosting for…
We have all seen the video surfacing of the Domestic Violence situation between Diddy and Cassie. The video itself was horrible to watch, but unfortunately, it’s far more common than many think. In October, I wrote an article ‘When A House is not a Home,’ to bring awareness during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic…
For those of you who are basketball fans, you may have heard the New York Knicks have made it to the semifinals of the eastern conference. In this city, we have gone so long with a Knicks team that have fallen short of this victory. Now with this step, it just shows how determination…
If you’re a fan of horror and want to see one that incorporates social issues, season 2 of Them-The Scare is one to watch. The story is different from the first season but they do slightly tie into each other. In this season, you have Deborah Ayorinde, actress from the first season playing a new…