DETROIT—A stage is a stage, even when it’s a church and the performance is a marathon of a funeral. Clocking in at more…
When you don’t listen to your body, your body has a way of forcing you to listen. Or at least that’s what my body does,…
Before I headed to Los Angeles for the BET Awards this weekend, I decided to test my old-person “stay awake” abilities…
There are literal birds chirping, tweeting and running around our hotel for the BET Awards—the vast Westin Bonaventure…
What to wear? What to wear?
I needed this. That’s what I told myself as I walked into the Park Avenue Armory on Wednesday, June 6, to see the…
It really doesn’t take much with me.
There are no acceptance speeches at the Pulitzers. You get your prize. You pose for your photo and you politely exit…
First things first: When it comes to Queen Sugar and director Ava DuVernay, I’m a total fan. I am biased. I am…
There are probably a few ways to read the wondrous musical Once on This Island, which originally debuted in 1990 and…
So I’m at All Star Code’s fifth-anniversary event at the High Line Hotel in New York City on Wednesday, and one of the…
If I am lucky enough to make it to 93, I want to be a fly 93 just like Harlem’s own, the legend, actress Cicely Tyson.
OK, first off, in this revival of the 1991 Tony Award-nominated musical Once on This Island, I had no clue that it was M…
There are literally too many things to go to in the fall. During that season in New York City, every charity group,…
I’m out of shape. It’s a reality. I just recently started working back out again because stairs were looking like…
Three weeks. That is how long I’ve been sick with an unknown virus (the thing doctors tell you when they don’t know…
I went natural before going natural was cool, back in 2000, 17 years ago, when curly-hair products for black hair were…
First off, I didn’t realize check-in was at 7, not 8:30. It was just the beginning of a series of disasters that led to…