Category: Celebrity/Fame

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Inspired by Survivor Viola Davis: You Don’t Need Perfect Weather to Bloom

Inspired by Survivor Viola Davis: You Don’t Need Perfect Weather to Bloom

Some flowers wait for sunshine.Others learn how to grow toward the light even while clouds remain overhead. Gratitude to a shining star....Viola Da [...]
She Quit Dancing for Britney Spears and Janet Jackson to Design Luxury Shoes Janet Wears

She Quit Dancing for Britney Spears and Janet Jackson to Design Luxury Shoes Janet Wears

  This entrepreneur quit dancing for Britney Spears and Janet Jackson to follow her passion for designing luxury shoes - Face2Face Africa [...]
Artist Jossie Harris Thacker: Building On Where You Come From — Without Going To War With It

Artist Jossie Harris Thacker: Building On Where You Come From — Without Going To War With It

Some of us were taught that “healing” means disowning everything that shaped us. The accent.The neighborhood.The elders.The songs.The faith.The grit. [...]
Soul Train Dancer Tamechi Toney Briggs Influenced A Generation & Created Infamous MC Hammer Pants

Soul Train Dancer Tamechi Toney Briggs Influenced A Generation & Created Infamous MC Hammer Pants

I've been screaming! No one was going to tell me?  Now all those years watching Soul Train and I did not make this connection when MC Hammer, who I a [...]
Vivica A. Fox: A master in showing up and showing out from her days on Soul Train

Vivica A. Fox: A master class in showing up and showing out from her days on Soul Train

Soul Train dancers were not “just dancers.” They were artists. People sometimes talk about Soul Train like it was simply a place to party. But look [...]
Soul Train: Where art became cross-cultural language

Soul Train: Where art became cross-cultural language

Soul Train. Soullll Train. The hippest trip in America.  I was in front of my television nearly every Saturday morning and pouted when I couldn't be. [...]
Sometimes Integrity Gets You Removed: And That Doesn’t Mean You Were Wrong

Sometimes Integrity Gets You Removed: And That Doesn’t Mean You Were Wrong

🎤 Dusty Springfield was a British singer known for her soulful voice and hit songs in the 1960s. Wikipedia 📅  1964: During a tour of South Africa, sh [...]
When Being Yourself Is Labeled “Political”: Why some people are punished simply for showing up

When Being Yourself Is Labeled “Political”: Why some people are punished simply for showing up

Nat King Cole really was attacked on stage during a concert in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1956. While performing at the Municipal Auditorium in Birmingh [...]
Meryl Streep: I AM Built from Endurance Not Approval

Meryl Streep: I AM Built from Endurance Not Approval

I am built from endurance, not approval. What lasts in me cannot be taken by time or opinion. [...]
It’s Not About Safety. It’s About How He Used His Body.

It’s Not About Safety. It’s About How He Used His Body.

Notice how people speak about sacrifices made for art vs. how they speak about sacrifices made for their favorite football or basketball player..... [...]
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