Just Your Average Black Woman Going Through Life
**It is now Black History Month, and the theme of the series is to honor Black Inventors. ** Can you imagine driving around in your car, coming to an intersection and being scared to move? Picture, if there were only stop signs on side roads with no regulations on larger roads? Can…
The movie ‘Origin’ directed by Ava Duvernay was just fully released in theaters. The film is based on the book ‘Caste’ by Isabel Wilkerson relating to stories of race, love, and loss. I have yet to see the movie, but the promotion has been increasing in recent days. While hearing interviews, I was shocked…
On Monday night, the Emmy Awards took place. There was a diverse group of people nominated in many different categories and it was beautiful to see. But, the cast reunions and sets of shows was my favorite part. Some of the shows displayed were “Martin” (My biased favorite of the night), “Ally McBeal”, “All…
If its members vote to ratify the contract, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) strike is now officially over. After over 100 days of fighting, the studios finally agreed to what the actors were fighting for in this new world of streaming services and artificial intelligence. When I first heard of this strike, I was…
It was over one year ago that I read the book, “The Other Black Girl,” by Zakiya Dalila Harris and was so blown away by its creativity that I made it the first book of the month recommendation for this blog. Now to see it become a series, so quick from its release in…
Today is the last day of June, but also the last day of Black Music Month for the year, so to end this decades battle series, I would like to honor the one and only Usher Raymond. Usher is a musical talent, a dancer, and all around entertainer. Since the age of 14, he…
Since the 1960’s girl groups have been a staple of music, but during those times most were doo wop formation and had similar looks. In the 1970’s, some of them expanding with a little more edge and personality, but it was the 1980’s when groups started to present their own styles and this has…
On this day June 19th, also known as Juneteenth, we reflect on the last days of our ancestors being told of their “freedom” and being physically enslaved was no more. Here we are now over 150 years later living in a world where so many are still enslaved and treated unfairly and here in…
The origins of Reggae music are in Jamaica in the late 1960’s and thanks to Bob Marley it has become global. After his death in the early 1980’s, the music became even more popular and widely recognized as people from the Caribbean islands live all over the world and people from all over the world…
The 70’s were before my time but it’s often talked about by those who were around as one in which there was lots of dancing and style, but also one of poverty and struggle for many families. The music often represented all of these things and one of those artists was the great Stevie…