February 2012
28 posts
“Whitney Houston’s funeral, but for being broadcast live and attended by...”
– Whitney’s ‘Homegoing’ And The Spiritual Divide | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture (via npr)
I was just talking about this at the universal gathering place for Black women: the hair salon. My mother and my stylist were at times doubled over with laughter when recalling Don...
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NYTimes: A Humanizing Tune From the Songster in... →
President Obama sang again on Tuesday night, letting loose a few lines of “Sweet Home Chicago” in the finale of a tribute to the blues at the White House. It was the encore to his Apollo Theater snippet of Al Green at a fund-raiser on Jan. 19, and while no one will be suggesting he give up his day job for a pop career, he did fairly well.
Blues singing is part oratory, and after a faltering...
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“Then, at that midway point of the show, insult was added to the perceived injury...”
– Chris Rizik: The 2012 Grammy Awards were a step backward for soul music | SoulTracks - Soul Music Biographies, News and Reviews (via npr)
Sometimes my blog feels like the obituary section.
I haven’t quite decided what I want, or need, to say about Whitney. She was a legend, an icon, my idol. She made me incredibly angry the last decade—the drugs, the alcohol were killing her and killed me to watch.
Even though I was pretty religious about Being Bobby Brown.
I will continue to switch back and forth between “I...
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