If you’ve ever seen Hope Boykin dance onstage, you’ve witnessed modern dance at its finest. For 17 years, the North Carolina native has been giving us the ‘theatrical experience’ that has made the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater one of the most celebrated dance companies in the world. As the eldest company member, Hope is a ...
“My name is Shaniqua,” said a blogger I met at a luncheon in mid-town Manhattan. Shaniqua? I did a double take. She gave me her card. As soon as I got home, I was all over my computer, genuinely curious to see what a website I presumed to be “ghetto” looked like. Hmm…it was nice…and there ...
If you haven’t heard of Los Angeles-based, Trinidad-born artist Miles Regis yet, you will. He learned to paint at age five, by watching his uncle Alexander King, one of Trinidad’s most renowned artists. The Huffington Post compared Regis to Basquiat and Jackson Pollack, and he was a standout at Miami’s Art Basel this past season ...
The late actor/rapper/poet Tupac Shakur is one of those legendary figures that never dies. Every few years there’s a new Tupac siting and just last month a man was arrested in Los Angeles using the name Tupac Amari Shakur, sending fans who believe he’s still alive into a frenzy. Needless to say, the guy was ...
Two years ago, Stacie Jones, who many remember from the second season of “The Apprentice,” had just put her kids to bed and was saying goodnight to a friend who was staying over when she passed out cold. She was rushed to the hospital where they determined that she had suffered a seizure due to ...
“He pushed me on the bed, pinned me down, and started punching me in the face,” recalls Harlem-based artist Dianne Smith, the night her 6’6, 270 lb. boyfriend assaulted her. It was the first time anything like that had ever happened, and when she asked him to go, he refused. She considered calling the police, however, she couldn’t ...
Take one look at film and TV producer Sidra Smith--beautiful, bald, and oozing with confidence--and it’s hard to imagine her any other way. But had you seen her 15 years ago, you would have been meeting an entirely different person. That Sidra had such an obsession with hair extensions that she drew up a will to ...
It's late and I just feel like writing. A funny thing happens when you end up doing the thing you love for a living. Most of the time you don't love it. You tolerate it because you know that without it you'd have to find another way to make a living. So tonight it's just ...
Like many recently, I was on cloud nine when I heard about the heavy sentence a white supremacist couple got in Georgia. Kayla Norton and Jose “Joe” Torres (though I don't know any white supremacists named Jose) got a combined 19 years for pulling a gun out on a bunch of little black kids at ...
Jade Jackson was just three years old when she stood on the toilet and declared, “I hate my hair!,” while frantically trying to pull it straight. It was the first sign that she and her hair were going to have issues. Fast forward a few years and Jade was obsessed with the typically straight hair worn ...
If you’ve ever seen Hope Boykin dance onstage, you’ve witnessed modern dance at its finest. For 17 years, the North Carolina native has been giving us the ‘theatrical experience’ that has ...
“My name is Shaniqua,” said a blogger I met at a luncheon in mid-town Manhattan. Shaniqua? I did a double take. She gave me her card. As soon as I got ...
If you haven’t heard of Los Angeles-based, Trinidad-born artist Miles Regis yet, you will. He learned to paint at age five, by watching his uncle Alexander King, one of Trinidad’s ...
The late actor/rapper/poet Tupac Shakur is one of those legendary figures that never dies. Every few years there’s a new Tupac siting and just last month a man was arrested ...
Two years ago, Stacie Jones, who many remember from the second season of “The Apprentice,” had just put her kids to bed and was saying goodnight to a friend who ...
“He pushed me on the bed, pinned me down, and started punching me in the face,” recalls Harlem-based artist Dianne Smith, the night her 6’6, 270 lb. boyfriend assaulted her. It was ...
Take one look at film and TV producer Sidra Smith--beautiful, bald, and oozing with confidence--and it’s hard to imagine her any other way. But had you seen her 15 years ago, ...
It's late and I just feel like writing. A funny thing happens when you end up doing the thing you love for a living. Most of the time you don't ...
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