“I’se still climbin’, and life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” Langston Hughes
“I am not tragically colored……I do not weep at the world.” Zora Neale Huston
“To be a Negro in this country and to be … Read the rest
If you were to ask an industry newbie what they aspired to achieve as an entertainer, the list probably includes a lot of what’s already a reality for Brandy Norwood. Her irresistible and eponymous 1994 debut, Brandy, went multi-platinum … Read the rest
It’s one of the most pivotal scenes in the classic 1985 film, The Color Purple: set in 1930s rural Georgia, Ms. Sofia (Oprah Winfrey) is in town running errands with her family, when she’s approached out of nowhere by Ms. … Read the rest
As she appears on the computer screen for AAFCA’s Virtual roundtable, Tracee Ellis Ross is the picture of casual glam: bare arms, elegant gold jewelry and her signature mane smoothed back to emphasize her expressive eyes and a mega-watt, magenta-from-MAC … Read the rest
“My freedom doesn’t end where your fears begin.”
“Fake crisis, Dr. Fauci is wrong!”
“The cure is deadlier than COVID, no virus cancels the constitution!”
Less than one month into the nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the Coronavirus, … Read the rest