Picture it: Verizon Theatre, February 2015. The air was crisp and the roads were icy, but the weather was all but forgotten when I witnessed one of my favorite performers, Diana Ross, live on stage. It wasn’t my first time at the venue or even my first time seeing a superstar, but the concert did… Continue reading ‘Don’t Ever Bring No Nappy-Headed Black Girl To My House!’: The Corrosive Effects of Colorism
Tag: Pam Grier
The Daily Rundown, Oct. 1: “76 of 79 Football Players Posthumously Found Positive For Brain Disease”
A few years ago, when I was interviewing the SUPER-BAD Pam Grier about her memoir, she dropped some SERIOUS gems on me about keeping our sons out of these big leagues because they’re paying too high a price for the collateral damage they sustain after leaving. In her grim example, her younger brother is now… Continue reading The Daily Rundown, Oct. 1: “76 of 79 Football Players Posthumously Found Positive For Brain Disease”
Pam Grier, Pt. 2, Another Angle
She’s a ground-breaking, game-changing actress whose talents became etched in cinematic history more than thirty years ago, thanks to her portrayals of gorgeous, gun-toting sisters like Coffy and Foxy Brown. Those characters rocked courage as well as they did high-heeled shoes and refused to let a man play them like dizzy dames. Now, as a… Continue reading Pam Grier, Pt. 2, Another Angle
Interviewing an Icon: Chatting With Author & Actress Pam Grier
She’s won fame and acclaim for her film roles, emboldened an entire generation of African-American women on the cusp of a civil and sexual revolution in the 60s and 70s and along the way, survived cancer, sexual assaults and broken hearts. She’s a public woman who has endured the private pain of racism, sexism and… Continue reading Interviewing an Icon: Chatting With Author & Actress Pam Grier