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Women from the Black Male Perspective in 90s Films: Reviewing John Singleton’s Poetic Justice
8 Little-Known Facts About TLC
From creating chart-topping hits to inspiring long-lasting fashion trends, the best-selling group's legacy—as well as their obstacles, controversy and tragedy, including the death of Left Eye—will be uncovered in TLC Forever . The special is available to stream now in the Lifetime app.
With hits like "Waterfalls," "No Scrubs," and "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg," the group is also praised for promoting female empowerment, self-determination,
7 Facts About Mary J. Blige
In 2023, Blige served as an executive producer on two new original movies inspired by her biggest hits: Mary J. Blige's Real Love and Mary J. Blige's Strength of a Woman . Mary J. Blige's Real Love is available to stream now and Mary J. Blige's Strength of a Woman premieres Saturday, June 17 at 8/7c.
From her emotional discography—including My Life
90s Hip Hop, Black Masculinity, and Mental Health: Deconstructing the Depressive, Yet Vulnerable…
Prince the Purple Prophesier: His Internet & Intellectual Property-Based Revolution for the…
These were the words that Prince, known as O+(-> during this period, presented to a sea of entertainment industry artists all a part of the Black rainbow we define as the African diasporic spectrum at the 2000 BET Soul Train Awards on March 4, 2000. Accepting the Male Artist of the Decade Award, Prince deflects the electric aura, radiating from himsel
Artist Statement
As a multifaceted storyteller, I consciously use design, filmmaking, screenwriting, photography, and journalism to create connections and shed light on the unordinary dimensions of people, objects, locations, and of all things that take up space. Within these dimensions, big or small, lies the human condition and their realistic stories, the ones that reflect reality. Through my archivist lens, I desire to create bodies of work that represent innovation while persevering and incorporating traditional (or analog) techniques of all kinds. Balancing both emerging and obsolete media feeds to my ultimate career goal: to protect the work and legacy of Black creators. I also apply this same logic when it comes to the infusion of music within my work. Thus, combining my passion for Black popular culture and various sounds of the African diaspora—specifically Hip-Hop—to push the alternative agenda of defying Black monolithism. In every project I pursue, active research is the center and most thrilling part of my creative process and how I structure and create images with an abundance of meaning, knowledge, and perspective. I simply strive for the whole story to be told in its truth.
“Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.”
Shawn Corey Cater (Jay-Z)