Just Your Average Black Woman Going Through Life
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…
I was born in the 80s, but raised in the 90’s, I believe every genre of music in the 90s was great, do you agree? I could do the Humpty Dance, become A Genie in A Bottle, and wonder How Do I live all in one decade of music because all of it was…
I love to watch documentaries and the docuseries, “Dear Mama” about the relationship between the rapper Tupac and his mother Afeni Shakur is a must watch to better understand the artist, the role his mother played within his life, and the many parallels of the separate lives they lived. Not to give too…
In a relationship whether intimate or friendly when we get mad with one another, we often say things we don’t truly mean, but in the moment, we want to project a similar hurt onto the other person. It becomes a battle that if one doesn’t become the bigger person in the war, it’s hard to…
The great Olivia Pope, oh sorry, I mean Kerry Washington has blessed us with a new show starring herself along with actor Delroy Lindo titled “Unprisoned”. Based on a true story, the show centers around Paige (Washington) a therapist and single mother to a teenage son and her father, Edwin (Lindo), who was released from…