And if you thought the BET Awards was gonna provide some sort of closure, well then maybe you should stop thinking all together and go take a nap. As you can see, I took the pilgrimage up to Harlem’s Apollo Theatre this weekend to pay my respects to dear Michael as best as I could. [...]
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I don’t really have any words yet and I am writing this about three hours after it happened. It is my sincerest wish that we focus our attention on Michael Jackson’s contributions to the canon of Black Music…American music…and not on the more unfortunate details of his personal life. I’ll share a few MJ tales. [...]
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I Owe You Nothing
It’s summertime (to some extent) and the living is hard. Women such as myself are pounding the pavement in the city in breezy work dresses for the day and various states of underdress for the night (or vice versa, whatever). And as arms, shoulders and thighs emerge from the oppressive fabric bindings of cold weather, [...]
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Dear Black people,Yes, that’s me. I didn’t tell you I grew my eyebrows out? I have some things I need to get off of my chest. We have been together for a long time. Almost 25 years, plus ancestral memory and such. This is the silver anniversary! You know most Black folks don’t make it [...]
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I have the site set up where I moderate comments that are received more than a week after the original entry was posted. I read them, but I don’t usually engage older discussions again, ’cause I have usually made my point by then. However, I have been stewing a little over a comment that was [...]
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Sir Fabulous Does, In Fact, Explain It All
As I mentioned last week, my nearest and one of my dearest SIR FABULOUS HIMSELF will be answering questions from you good folks on The Beautiful Struggler! Yay! And despite the fact that he filmed/enabled “Slowly, Surely (The Drunk Taxi Remix)”,he is brilliant and gives super duper advice. For his first consultation, he is solving [...]
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