the clark sisters
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If You Liked “Bob Marley: One Love,” You’ll Love These Black Music Biopics
If the new Bob Marley movie left you wanting more music, check out some of our favorite Black music biopics.
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Clark Sisters and Other Artists Sampled on Beyoncé’s Renaissance Album
From the Clark sisters to Big Freedia, these artists had their iconic hits featured in one of the most unique albums of Beyoncé’s career
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The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel Movie on Lifetime Brought the Sunshine. You Should Watch It. Amen.
The Lifetime network doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to black biopics. My life has never quite recovered from their attempt at the Aaliyah story. That particular movie was so bad in casting, thought, mind and deed that while watching the movie with all of social media, when Aaliyah showed up dating…
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A Prayer for Whichever Ballhead Scallywag Removed Teedra Moses’ Complex Simplicity From Streaming Services
Let us bow our heads in prayer: Precious Lord—mellifluous maker of the melody, harbinger of the highest Hosanna in the land—a grave injustice has been manifested by a body or bodies for whom the bell obviously never tolls for happiness. Father Gawd, I opened up my Apple Music recently in attempts to get some simple…
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The 10 Best, Blackest, Messiest and Ugliest Moments From Aretha Franklin's Epic Marathon Homegoing
1. At 3:30 p.m. Friday afternoon—a time which was already 30 minutes past the very optimistic target ending time on the agenda for Aretha Franklin’s homegoing—my wife and I left the house during Rev. Jesse Jackson’s speech to buy a mattress for a bed delivered to us the day before. When we returned two whole-ass…