The man was a legend, icon, and to most of us an untouchable performer and entertainer. From the time he first started dancing, as a charismatic child to the time he floated across the stage for the first time at Motown 25 no one has been able to match his unique style or creative genius. [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘People’
April 21, 2009
I just picked this pic up from some of my frat brothers who attended our annual “Kingdom Conference” this past weekend back at Texas Tech! Check out our national blog at MOGFRAT.blogspot.com or follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/mogfrat.
February 18, 2009
Anthony Bourdain American Icon?
So by now we’ve all seen hundreds of our friends pictures transformed into the iconic Shepard Fairey’s Obama “Hope” poster. A phenomenon that has become almost as contagious and widespread as the poster itself. And like so many of our friends celebrities too have found their way into this cultural frenzy as well. I stumble [...]
February 12, 2009
The new beauty standard
In the short time that the Obamas have been in the white house there have already been numerous articals highlighting the first families contribution to the new look of Black Families. Effortlesly lifting the sterotypes of black housholds being seen only as broken-homes troubled with absentee fathers. Or as functional families only withn the scope of [...]
February 11, 2009
The humor of simplicity
I don’t know how many of you have heard of Demetri Martin but he is one of the funniest comedians I’ve come across in a long time. The content of his material is extremely simplistic and at times juvenile but what makes it come a live is his impeccable timing and nonchalant demeanor. Mixed with [...]
February 10, 2009
MS Breakthrough!
One of my good friends here in my graduate program was on the CBS early show this morning talking about his breakthrough stem cell operation for Multiple Sclerosis. Not only is he a strapping young man but I can personally attest to the fact that his “journey” is an excellent example of the power of [...]
February 9, 2009
Brooooooklyn!
I’ve been meaning to put this up for sometime and now that I finally have my new blog set up I thought it would be good for a quick post. I was fortunate enough to catch the Brooklyn lyricist himself, Mos- Def up close in concert here in downtown Richmond before the break. My man was [...]
February 5, 2009
Michael Eric Dyson is one smooth brother!
I had the privilege and the challenge of sitting through a lecture today given by none other than the wordsmith himself Mr. Michael Eric Dyson. I’m not sure what impressed me more, the ballet of which he danced between hip hop lyrics and proper english diction or the fusion of a prodigious vocabulary with theatrical showmanship. Either [...]
