Harry Belafonte is an African-American entertainer and producer who brought Jamaica’s calypso beat to mainstream audiences and then used his fame to fight against racial and social inequality. He grew up in both Jamaica and the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
Keith Sweat and Friends
Friday, February 19, 2010
8:00 PM
with Bell Biv Devoe and special guest Montell Jordan
Tickets: $76, $56, $39.50
At Uptown Comedy Club this weekend is Dominique. She has been on Def Comedy Jam, Showtime at the Apollo, and Jamie Foxx’s Laffapalooza. This is where I will be. To watch a clip click more, please be advised about the language.
It’s the World Famous Bronner Bros International Hair and Beauty Show in Atlanta, GA this weekend February 20 – 23, 2010 at the Georgia World Congress Center. Already the biggest hair show around, it has gained even more steam from Chris Rock’s Good Hair Film last year… Atlanta will be once again filled with lots of interesting people. I hope I can get out with my camera.
Alex Haley wrote Roots, one of the most celebrated novels of the 1970s. Haley spent 20 years in the Coast Guard (1939-59) then began a second career as a writer, working for magazines ranging from Reader’s Digest to Playboy.
What do I call wanting support from someone based only on the fact that we have something in common? I don’t know. But I really wish we as women, and we as black women would stick together. We all know someone in someone else’s shoes. This is the story:
A service person came to my apartment to fix something. No big deal.
Langston Hughes published more than three dozen books during his life, starting out with poetry and then expanding into novels, short stories, and plays.
Holding his arms high after a huge final lap, Chicago native Shani Davis became the first man to win two gold medals in the 1,000 meter speedskating race, crossing the line in 1:08.94 at the Richmond Olympic Oval on Wednesday night.
CeCe Winans maybe known for her beautiful, uplifting voice, but at the end of the day she is human with issues and problems she has to work through just like the rest of us. And next to her music, that’s what she wants people to know more than anything.
“Life is rough and we all experience the storms,
