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SPIRIT AIRLINES IS AN ALIEN ORGANIZATION THAT STUDIES HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THIS IS WHY

SPIRIT AIRLINES IS AN ALIEN ORGANIZATION THAT STUDIES HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THIS IS WHY

This past Saturday I was supposed to be in New York enjoying the fruits of my labor come full circle. However, instead I ended up at DFW Airport for five hours getting some of the best rest of March 2019.

I kept telling my boyfriend the airline was garbage. I hadn’t flown Spirit in over ten years for this very reason, but I figured a one-way flight couldn’t be as much of an issue as the round…

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WHERE IS DALLAS THEATRE CENTERS BLACK AUDIENCE?

WHERE IS DALLAS THEATRE CENTERS BLACK AUDIENCE?

The photo that accompanies this blog beholds the cast members of “Fetch Clay, Make Man,” a play by noted playwright, Will Power. The play is a pinch of African American history surrounding the relationship between champion heavy weight boxer, Muhammad Ali and Hollywood superstar, Lincoln Perry aka Stepin Fetchit.

The actors (left to right) are: Preston Butler III, Keith Arthur Bolden, Shenyse…

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CONVERSATIONS IN THE CEMETERY: Interview Two

Don't read this if you think you know me. Some of the information may cause you to gasp out loud.

I’ve proven to be more interesting to myself than I first imagined. The first interview revealed information that I was unawares holding in. Now, I’m thinking I might have memoir potential. So here I am. The last Saturday of Spring Break 2018. All week I’ve been productive. Wrote a paper, read a book, had some of my art looked at and approved for a 2019 art installation, and found out I didn’t…

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(StBeauty)

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The Conversation in the Cemetery: Interview One

The Conversation in the Cemetery: Interview One

It’s a pallid Wednesday evening. I’ve come home and decided not to turn on the television and catch an episode of Mad Men. She show has become my latest fascination. I’m drawn to how careless, white, and male it is. Not to mention the writing is epic. No, today, I’ve come home, downed a small vegetarian dish of Mediterranean origins with a glass of wine, and decided to interview myself. Yes. See,…

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BEING INSPIRED AND STAYING THAT WAY

BEING INSPIRED AND STAYING THAT WAY

Everything that can be considered good used to inspire all the way up until I was in my twenties. I’m not sure what happened, but life changed and I began to interpret the daily misgivings more. I’d wake up, think about the job I was growing to hate or the possibilities of not making it (whatever “it” was) and I couldn’t recover. No longer would my dreams overcome my sensitivity to the realities.…

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In the 1800s, part of the West Village was known as “Little Africa, or less kindly as Coontown,” writes John Strausbaugh in his fascinating new book “The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village.”

“Little Africa also drew free blacks and ‘mulattoes’ who’d come to New York from the West Indies. Often better educated and with more skills than the city’s freed slaves, some of them thrived, within the limits imposed on them. One [William Henry Brown] started America’s first black professional theater company in Greenwich Village in 1821….the African Grove, with an all-black company….Its first full-lengthproduction was Richard III.” 

“As other productions followed — Othello, some farces and pantomines, and most controversially Brown’s own The Drama of King Shotaway, about a slave rebellion in the Indies — whites began to join blacks in the audience. They didn’t sit in respectful silence. Black actors performing Shakespeare represented to them an amusing novelty. A newspaper from 1822 reports that ‘the audience was generally of a riotous character, and amused themselves by throwing crackers on the stage, and cracking their jokes with the actors.’ 

“The seating policy at the African Grove, amazingly, instituted reverse segregation: whites were relegated to the back rows because, as a handbill stated, they didn’t know ‘how to conduct themselves at entertainments for ladies and gentlemen of color.’”

Brown closed down the Grove in 1823, but one of the company’s star actors, Ira Aldridge (shown above, in Titus Andronicus) moved to England, “where he became renowned for his Othello, as well as his Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear, and Shylock, the latter roles sometimes performed in whiteface makeup.”

More on “The Village,” by John Strausbaugh

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Miles Brown and Angela Bassett attend the premiere Of Disney and Marvel’s “Black Panther” at Dolby Theatre on January 29, 2018 in Hollywood, California

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WED, 02 JANUARY 2008  When I was in Europe I would play this game for hours and hours… it helped me zone out. Everybody would get involved… Derrick Dudley (Common’s manager) and Consequence were the best other than me… I beat Lexi… Don C beat Jay… Tony Williams beat Common… but every now and then people would speak of this legendary connect 4 champion……….. BEYONCE!!! I had 2 play her!…so last night at Jay’s new 40/40 club in Las Vegas (which is sidebar, crazy big w/ 24krt gold flooring, Black Jack tables, $500 slot machines,the biggest projection screen in the universe and the best turkey burgers I’ve ever had in my life) she beat me 9 times in a row! (and I didn’t even spaz lol) here’s a photo of the only game I won!

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Alexandre Dumas. 24 July 1802 Happy Birthday

Author of the 3 Musketeers, Conte of Monte Cristo, TheMan in the Iron Mask and others, most Americans owe their knowledge of French History to Dumas. 

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[New Music] Deliver Me-Sir The Baptist Featuring Brandy — Wait…wait…whut!?! So…gospel singer/rapper Sir The Baptist(fake Kirk Franklin) has released a new song featuring Brandy. The blawgs are saying they are an item, but I am not convinced!

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THE MIS-EDUCATION OF EDUCATION: It's Never Enough

THE MIS-EDUCATION OF EDUCATION: It’s Never Enough

I’m in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on the campus of Wilkes University. I’m in a  cold, sterile computer lab with eight classmates and while they are involving themselves in updating their resumes, compiling curriculum vitae, and figuring out how to write a teaching statement, I’m drowning in my own resistance – no longer compelled to keep climbing the education career ladder and I have no idea how…

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Podcasts You Should Be Listening To: On 1 With A. Rye — Wait…wait…whut!?! Kinfolk! You know I always looking for new and interesting podcasts to get me through the day.

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Ann Peebles performing “I Can’t Stand The Rain” live in 1974

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Young Lisa Bonet

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MOVING FORWARD IN WRITING

Writing has always been my go-to method of communicating. I write when I’m pleased, melancholy, thoughtful, and when I’ve exhausted all of my other escapisms as options. As a professional writer, I hope to accomplish more opportunities to be published, chances to assist young, aspiring writers opportunities to being published, and to create a body of work that not only explores genres, but states…

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Eartha Kitt photographed by Gordon Parks in New York, 1952.