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Generational Mobility
Much has been said about the gaps between the Boomers, Generation X, andGeneration Y. The longer I live, the more evident these differences are becoming…but nothing marks these differences better... Read more
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What’s Going on with L-Boogie?
What’s going on with Lauryn “L-Boogie” Hill? She first jumped on the scene as “L-Boogie” in the Fugees, when sisters were falling out of the hip-hop crews and becoming backup... Read more
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Pulling Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps…with an Ivy League Degree
A good label for Dagoberto Gilb? Try good. Richard Howard, then poetry editor of the Paris Review, was claiming that the best writers rise to the top of the literary... Read more
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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
If you know anything about Black music in America, then you’re already familiar with the traditions of the New Orleans Brass Bands. One of the family branches of jazz, brass... Read more
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SFGate: Culture Blog : Great moments in zombie survival literature
Great article: SFGate: Culture Blog : Great moments in zombie survival literature I don’t normally write about zombies, but this couldn’t be ignored… Columnist Peter Hartlaub is not going to... Read more
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More Examples of My Writing! Television Reviews
As the founder and curator for the International Black Women’s Film Festival, I maintain a membership-based entertainment news list that’s sent out monthly. Below is an example of succinct, informative... Read more
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Writing for Entertainment News Outlets
As the founder and curator for the International Black Women’s Film Festival, I maintain a membership-based entertainment news list that’s sent out monthly. Below are examples of succinct, informative entertainment... Read more
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FILM REVIEW: FELLINI SATYRICON (1969) – dir. Federico Fellini
This review originally appeared in VIVID.ID (July – August 2007), an online film magazine of the International Black Women’s Film Festival ~ The first time I watched Fellini’s SATYRICON, I... Read more
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FILM REVIEW: Nothing But a Man (1964) – dir. Michael Roemer
NOTHING BUT A MAN is an intense, narrative film from the early-1960’s. It documents the struggles of an African American couple trying to live in dignity and purpose in a... Read more
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(Excerpt)The Soul of San Francisco
This article appears in full in my book WORD: Rap, Politics & Feminism, and online at the Museum of the African Diaspora’s salon “I’ve Known Rivers” Project. ~ Rap is... Read more
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