David Boykin's Soul Sessions in Chicago every Sunday from 2:00-5:00 at the Arts Incubator on 55th and Garfield (at Green Line), MacArthur Genius Grant-winning photographer Carrie Mae Weems and her current solo exhibit at the Guggenheim in New York City, Current reprise of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun starring Denzel Washington on Broadway (and … Continue reading A Few of My Favorite Things Now (Just a Few…)
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Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video
I am so excited for this... Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video. Have negression waiting in your inbox: Subscribe Today. Twitter | Pinterest | Kalisha.com
Black Butterflies, or just a post to sing the praises of my favorite actresses…
I would designate a special day and Oscar for the following women who have been visible to all of America for decades, enriched our lives, portrayed brave new worlds and given me the cinematic models to dream upon in my own little humble life as well as to imagine characters for...
Lucky Me (Or, On a Good Day)
I promised myself I would 'blog' here every single week. I would create a post, a literary non-fiction essay I like to call them, since 'post' sounds so bite-sized, and I am a Type-A overachiever who has to do everything notably. Of course, as usual, I have topics and words crashing my head in relation … Continue reading Lucky Me (Or, On a Good Day)
Black Woman Gossip (Or, Ten Great Black Women’s Story Collections)
Black women can certainly tell a story. And where others are more subdued or might strain unto artificial performance and nearly-rehearsed expression, such embellishments to a tale are attributes we can't help but deliver automatically. While the privileged classes were fortunate enough to bask in the glamour of the novel and epic poems they created using the … Continue reading Black Woman Gossip (Or, Ten Great Black Women’s Story Collections)
Black History Month
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Are You a Joyce Vincent?
I A definitive 21st Century Western biography concerns a Black female Londonder who passed away in her government-subsidized bedsit/SRO flat in 2003, at a time she was wrapping Christmas presents and writing Christmas cards—and she remained in there, seated on her couch, putrefying and finally skeletizing, for the next three years. In 2006, a government agency kicked in … Continue reading Are You a Joyce Vincent?
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