Nine years ago this week, the entertainment world unexpectedly lost actor and superstar stand-up comedian Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, better known as Bernie Mac. A Chicago native and family man who cultivated his stand-up persona in-between jobs, Mac earned national fame in the early 90s with an appearance on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam. The audience that… Continue reading Living With Sarcoidosis: Public & Private Struggles With the Disease
Category: DMN Briefing Columns
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Our Friends, Our Lives; Why “Girls Trip” Is A Movie Must
Music, New Orleans, girlfriends, zip-lining, absinthe….. and grapefruit? If that sentence made perfect sense to you, then congratulations—–you’ve also recently seen the new summer comedy, Girls Trip. I attended a showing with a girlfriend last Friday and yes, we both considered it a fabulous flick. At our AMC location, the theater was packed with… Continue reading Our Friends, Our Lives; Why “Girls Trip” Is A Movie Must
“She Went to Use The Restroom and She Never Came Back.”
Thanks to the numerous strides made in politics, medicine, sports and entertainment, wider opportunities have presented themselves for girls and women. In 2016, for example, The Dallas Wings became the first team in North Texas to join the WNBA franchise. Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar became the first Somali American Muslim legislator elected to office, and performer… Continue reading “She Went to Use The Restroom and She Never Came Back.”
Edgar, “John Mars” and “Tarzan” Too: ECOF 2017’s Dallas Debut
In the year 1912, pulp fiction fan and one-time pencil-sharpener wholesaler, Edgar Rice Burroughs, became a writer in his spare time and created two of the world’s most iconic characters, space explorer “John Carter” and “John Clayton,” better known as the jungle-dwelling adventurer called Tarzan. Before his death in 1950, the Chicago native published over 80… Continue reading Edgar, “John Mars” and “Tarzan” Too: ECOF 2017’s Dallas Debut
“They Marched Black and Biracial Children Down the Hall To Check Their Hairstyles.”
Every weekend, after Saturday dance classes and before Sunday evening, the girls and I gather in the living room for a marathon of hair-styling. One by one, Nia and Layla take turns sitting between Mama’s knees, patiently accepting my commands to ”turn here” and ”lean there” as I oil their scalps, detangle their coils and… Continue reading “They Marched Black and Biracial Children Down the Hall To Check Their Hairstyles.”