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 news that draws in the reader. ~ TRIPLE THREAT! Anika Noni Rose, Tracie Thoms...
Fela’s music lured African Americans in with funky extended tracks and by singing in English. He “de-exoticized” African music by using traditional Nigerian syncopation that funked and thumped with James Brown infused beats. Fela was the originator of Afro beat music
Changing the vision and image of one of hip-hop’s most prolific voices was like changing the voice of urban America.
It seemed as if the regular slights, sexism and overt discrimination in rap music gave women rappers the collective strength to push the truly brave female rap artists to the forefront.
They didn’t fit into the hip-hop or R&B categories. They weren’t “hoodied” up with a hard assed scowl or conked up in a purple Chess King suit and a pair of EK glasses.
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