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Can We Live: When Black Women Are Shielding, Yet Targeted By, Black Men

Posted in Empowerment and Self-Knowledge, Love & Living by
Lorrie Irby Jackson

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Picture it: Dallas, 2001. I was settling into my singleness and adjusting to the demands of working and raising my then-toddler son. Slowly dealing, but still feeling the weight of it all, but I sought solace in my friends, my … Read the rest

August 6, 2016
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Fantasia’s “The Definition of….,” CD Preview/Review Link

Posted in Contemporary Soul/R&B, DMN Briefing Columns, Grooves & Beats by
Lorrie Irby Jackson

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Soulful, fiesty, rough-around-the-edges and more brash than a hot pink dress at an all-white dinner party. No one was prepared for a 20-year-old High Point, NC native to make it through the rounds of the nation’s top talent competition known … Read the rest

July 31, 2016
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Shaking It Up, Shutting It Down: A Chat With Sheila E.

Posted in DMN Briefing Columns by
Lorrie Irby Jackson

Family, faith, working hard and giving back: on one hand, she’s a woman navigating through life just like the rest of us, balancing her hustle and humanitarian endeavors while sharing personal ups and downs with the world at large. On … Read the rest

July 23, 2016
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The Evil, The Fly, The Bizarre & The Basic: An Inventory of 2016

Posted in DMN Briefing Columns by
Lorrie Irby Jackson

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2016, like every year before it, has featured both positive and negative aspects. Some events have been blips that barely moved the needle of conscious thought while others, no matter our differences, have rocked us to our collective cores as … Read the rest

July 16, 2016
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Maxwell’s blackSUMMER’snight, CD Preview/Review Link

Posted in Contemporary Soul/R&B, Grooves & Beats by
Lorrie Irby Jackson

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……As one of the few remaining kings of Neo-Soul, Maxwell has the luxury of spacing his projects and living/collecting inspiration in-between. The 2009 predecessor was built on the foundation of a broken heart, or at least the concept of disillusion … Read the rest

July 10, 2016
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