Folks stay talking about The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Once in awhile, we take a different approach and highlight the fascinating array of happy black girls and guys (hbg’s) we…

In another lifetime ago, I spent my Friday nights tucked away in a studio made of straw. Okay…maybe it wasn’t made of straw, but in the seven years since my…

I used to wake up at the insane hour of 5:30 am on Sundays, just to watch B.Smith with Style. I found the show on accident one morning (more than…

Zora Neale Hurston found me by way of Alice Walker. I imagine it was that way for many black girls my age. There was no “Mule Bone” or “Their Eyes…

One of my earliest memories involves attending a  Girl Scouts Brownie meeting. I was probably in 1st grade and one of the older girls in the neighbor asked my mama…

My mom was a theater major at Antioch College. As a little girl en route to one of our first shows, I remember her telling me about her final project, bringing an original production…

If I made a list of things that tempted me to get up and dance this week, Kendrick Lamar’s latest single “i” would be at the top of the list. It’s…