Amber Rose does a Grace Jones

February 26, 2010 4 Comments

Tweet Kanye West on his new blog, recently released a pic of model girlfriend Amber Rose outstretched and semi-nude holding a microphone. While West and Rose certainly make for an awesome fashion combo, what else can these two think of? West, your favorite stage-crashing rapper and his stripper/model girlfriend Amber Rose, are all broken up now, ...

Regina King: Hardest working woman in showbiz?

February 26, 2010 2 Comments

Tweet Movie star Regina King is among a small cadre of African-American actresses we’ve literally seen grow up before our eyes (Janet Jackson and Cookie being among the others) on television. Born and raised in Los Angeles, it would be easy for King to be “Hollywood,” in all senses, but the 39-year-old actress is as ...

Big and Fine: Full-figured is in

February 25, 2010 1 Comment

Tweet If I changed the lyrics to one of my favorite songs, it’d go: “Dish water blonde, tall and foine”. Of course, blonde is optional, but the point remains: Having a little meat on the bones never hurt nobody. Of courst the backlash against the skinny little things that model women’s clothes have been going ...

Nicki Minaj: Hip-Hop Queen?

February 25, 2010 8 Comments

Tweet Young Money artist Nicki Minaj has nary an album out but is the hottest female in the rap game already? How could this happen? How could a lyrical novice who started on Myspace with barely two mixtapes and a handful of features, and some major detractors, be a serious contender for hip-hop queen? Call ...

Diahann Carroll: Lioness of film, music, stage

February 24, 2010 2 Comments

Tweet Few people intimately know the historical treasure that is Diahann Carroll, singer, actress, activist, pioneer. Carroll, born in New York City, was the first African American to get their own show on national television. And she didn’t play a maid, or subservient character either. From 1968 to 1970, “Julia” was a groundbreaking comedy in ...

Amazing Grace

February 23, 2010 No Comments

Tweet When you think of the word androgynous, perhaps your mind harks back to Amber Rose, or even Omahyra Mota, but Grace Jones was the originator. A musical pioneer in the New Wave/disco genre, Grace Jones was a force to be reckoned with in the 1970s, creating three albums — Portfolio (1977), Fame (1978), and ...

Introducing … the Carolina Chocolate Drops

February 23, 2010 No Comments

Tweet You’ll have to excuse the ‘coon’ imagery and thick Mississippi Burning-like sensitivity around this this project, for the Carolina Chocolate Drops are not an R-n-B band; nor are they a funk band. Nada on the rock band either. They are a black jug band, and the only modern day African-American one, too. Has this ...

Bebel Gilberto: Bossa Nova Lova

February 23, 2010 No Comments

Tweet With the recent successful comeback of Sade Abu, I’m reminded of another calm-voiced starlet that has simmered just below superstardom in the States but is part of a musical legacy in Brazil and parts of South America: Bebel Gilberto. One part Sade, the other part Sheila E., (no Bebel doesn’t play drums) Gilberto learned ...

Ah, Carnival: Mardi for the Party

February 23, 2010 No Comments

Tweet For much of Latin America it was the season of Carnival and what a party.What does ‘Carnival’ mean? Well, there is some dispute by some say it comes from the Latin expression carne vale, which means “farewell to meat,” which is what Catholics gave up during the Lent season.Nowadays, especially in Brazil, it’s all ...

The Family Deelishis

February 22, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Admit it, you thought Deelishish, aka, London Charles was just going to be another reality TV skank with a Gucci charm bracelet for a moral compass. VH1 viewers can’t be wrong, can they? Well, it seems Dee has tasted the real flavor of love, and his name is not William Drayton and he is ...

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