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Category: Black Women

Black Girls in Paris, Harlem and more…

You'd be correct to expect this story of a young Renaissance woman's fantasy trip, to live like her iconic Black American idols, to be sexy and to weave in Josephine Baker. The novel's heroine goes to Paris in search of Baldwin and finds jazz, interracial love and the freelance hustler life...

Kalisha Buckhanon for negression Art, Black Women, Black Writers, Books, Film, Other Links Leave a comment February 11, 2019February 11, 2019

No Excuses: 20 Black Male Soul Singers to Stream Besides R. Kelly

The ultimate power of evil is diversion, devouring, annihilation and blacking out of what is good. This is all our faults, not Kelly's. How many more men are out here for us to listen to, most of them much better vocalists than Kelly, and more romantic lyricists as well?

Kalisha Buckhanon for negression #SayHerName, Black Women, Music, Other Links, Spirit & Health, Women 1 Comment January 14, 2019April 5, 2022

Lauryn Can Rest On Her Laurels.

Ms. Hill complicated the Negress image in all the right directions and ways, and she made it clear the auras of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone were more stubborn than stereotypes, and she made it known paying audiences were waiting for more like them.

Kalisha Buckhanon for negression Black Women, Music, Spirit & Health, Women 5 Comments July 27, 2018August 1, 2018

At the Movies, Mammies Make Way for Mourners

This Black woman onscreen had to buy her freedom to agency and complexity for a high price. That price was her child's life. Such is depicted in a spate of films now depending upon a Black woman losing a child violently with no one held accountable.

Kalisha Buckhanon for negression #BlackLivesMatter, Black Women, Children, Film, Spirit & Health Leave a comment July 19, 2018September 1, 2019

Beah Richards, Bette Davis and the Male Member

Beah Richards and Bette Davis illuminate the essential if fraught alliance between Black women who serviced White men and White women who benefited from it all in the obscure 80's HBO movie "As Summers Die."

Kalisha Buckhanon for negression Black Women, Film, Race, TV, Women Leave a comment July 16, 2018July 27, 2018

Negress Allure (in honor of sisters at the 2017 MET Gala…)

A Cosmopolitan online piece pointed out how women of color were best-dressed at the 2017 MET Gala. This got me to thinking about how long Black women have been unsung fashion and beauty changemakers...

Kalisha Buckhanon for negression Black Women, Spirit & Health, Womanism, Women, Writers Leave a comment May 8, 2017July 11, 2018

An Interview with Maya Jensen, Filmmaker behind ‘Solidarity in Saya: An Afro-Bolivian Music Movement’

Bolivians of African descent introduced Jensen to Saya music, an old artform which was a universal language in the Spanish-speaking land of their political and labor oppressors. Jensen’s film documents Saya music of today.

Kalisha Buckhanon for negression Black Women, Film, Girls, Interviews, Music, Negression, Slavery, Women Leave a comment April 24, 2017July 7, 2018

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