Category: Celebrity/Fame

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Tammi Terrell’s Story Reminds Us That Survival Is More Than Staying Alive

Tammi Terrell’s Story Reminds Us That Survival Is More Than Staying Alive

When people speak about Tammi Terrell, they often begin with how young she was when she died. Twenty-four. They talk about the brain tumor. The inte [...]
Angie Stone, Roberta Flack & Gwen McCrae: The Power of Their Musical Legacy

Angie Stone, Roberta Flack & Gwen McCrae: The Power of Their Musical Legacy

Angie Stone’s Music Pulled Us Through—And Now, She’s Gone.   Angie Stone has passed, and somehow, it still doesn’t feel real. During one of my [...]
10 Lessons Women Can Take From Star Jones, Al Reynolds, and Everybody Who Had Something to Say

10 Lessons Women Can Take From Star Jones, Al Reynolds, and Everybody Who Had Something to Say

There was a time when Star Jones and Al Reynolds seemed to be everywhere. The proposal came at the 2004 NBA All-Star Game. Then came the enormous w [...]
7 Survival Lessons From Eve: Your Life Is Allowed to Have More Than One Act

7 Survival Lessons From Eve: Your Life Is Allowed to Have More Than One Act

Some chapters prove you can survive. Others remind you that survival was never supposed to be the whole story. I love Eve's music. Let me get th [...]
Vanessa Williams Refused to Become the Worst Thing People Said About Her

Vanessa Williams Refused to Become the Worst Thing People Said About Her

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way. -Nikki Giovanni It was 1984, and Vanessa [...]
Bob Mackie Set Beauty Free: Remembering a Designer Who Knew How to……

Bob Mackie Set Beauty Free: Remembering a Designer Who Knew How to……

Before Bob Mackie dressed Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Cher, Dolly Parton and some of the most famous women in entertainment, Black women were already d-r [...]
Why Does He Get Angry When You’re Happy? When Your Joy Becomes a Problem in a Controlling Relationship

Why Does He Get Angry When You’re Happy? When Your Joy Becomes a Problem in a Controlling Relationship

Inspired by....... Why women’s laughter has long been treated as a threat | Psyche Ideas  Posted by Amy Diehl, Ph.D on X.com   Th [...]
Sugar Ray Leonard Knew How to Fight. That Did Not Mean He Held the Power

Sugar Ray Leonard Knew How to Fight. That Did Not Mean He Held the Power

Sugar Ray Leonard knew how to fight. By his early twenties, the quiet kid from Palmer Park, Maryland, had become an Olympic gold medalist, and profess [...]
Greg Louganis Was One of the Strongest Athletes in the World. That Didn’t Make Him Safe.

Greg Louganis Was One of the Strongest Athletes in the World. That Didn’t Make Him Safe.

Greg Louganis knew what it meant to command his body. At the height of his career, he could climb ten meters above a pool, launch himself into open [...]
Survivor Affirmations: I Am Allowed to Be More than My Worst Decision

Survivor Affirmations: I Am Allowed to Be More than My Worst Decision

Maybe we don't have more talented female singers in mainstream markets these days because we never learned how to treat them?  There was something [...]
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