I attend various and many cultural events throughout Maryland, bringing you primarily unknown artists that should be recognized. A few weeks ago, I ran into one such of said category. He was at the McBride gallery, in Annapolis Maryland. His name is DAVID DIAZ.
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It is one of those plays, that plunges some of us to behave like one-time famous talk show host Arsenio Hall, and silently say, “Huhhhhh”. This play marked the end of the 2024 season at the Arena Players Baltimore, MD. It carried the name “It’s Showdown Time”. Not knowing anything beforehand, one may believe in
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When Aretha Franklin screamed for Dr. Feelgood, little did she know, it good very well be a woman, with the title of therapist. She does holistic counseling. She is well credited academically, and authored the books, HEALING POWER OF FORGIVENESS, and THERAPEUTIC DRUMMING for HEALING. Dr. Dorothy Adamson Holly will not simply recommend you attend
When Aretha Franklin screamed for Dr. Feelgood, little did she know, it good very well be a woman, with the title of therapist. She does holistic counseling. She is well credited academically, and authored the books, HEALING POWER OF FORGIVENESS, and THERAPEUTIC DRUMMING for HEALING. Dr. Dorothy Adamson Holly will not simply recommend you attend
Detention is associated with primarily punishment, where one spends that detention, can produce beautiful and rewarding fruitage, but for others, hate, disgust, even thoughts of revolution, enter the brain trust. Here lately, the world has seen the use of detention as primarily PUNISHMENT! Imprisonment is a form of detention, and one of the “olive branches”
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It was his final album, and perhaps his finest. At most African American weddings, the words, “who gives this woman to be married?”, bring out that smiling proud father, or father figure, who later graces the dance floor to the iconic words and sound of Luther Vandross’s, “DANCE WITH MY FATHER”. It was the SONG
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It was 1960. America’s only black city, was Washington D.C. The premier black/ African American University was Howard. Yet 13 miles away, blacks were not allowed to enter an amusement park, named GLEN ECHO. Just imagine, the most highly educated blacks, eating and drinking the best, driving the best cars, but their money could not
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The African American twist on life is indelible. You name it: clothing, food, jewelry, rhythm. Once touched, it is not what it was “in the beginning”. This example is, how do you worship God musically as an African American? Bearing in mind that Christ was born in Jerusalem, territorially, the Middle East. The early Christians
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Stravinsky (Courtesy of Ross A- Discovered) This is not make- believe. On one turntable are the platinum recordings of the internationally acclaimed classical composer Igor Stravinsky. On turntable number two, Kendrick Lamar, rapper(Hip-Hop artist) from Compton California. Igor born 1882, from St. Petersburg Russia; Lamar 1987, Compton, California. Kendrick Lamar (from MTV music Awards
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ACTORS in the play GEM of THE OCEAN Black playwright AUGUST WILSON, called this play Gem of The Ocean. If you have seen this play, see it again for there are new lessons to be learned. Africans sold their own to slave owners, who ferried their catch across the Atlantic, to work mercilessly on sugar
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