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Ex-Con Writes The Stories Society Is Afraid To Face: Abuse, Rape, Adultery and Pain Released from prison in 2004, St. Louis native and author Allysha Hamber set out to give society, especially women, a taste of real life for a African American woman, growing up in the ghet … Continue

Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died, a family spokesman said. She was 81. Andrew Freedman said Kitt, who was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, died Thursday in Connecticut of colon cancer. Those are the facts of Ms Kitts death…….But he facts don’t even begin to tell her STORY. Here let me add my two-cents worth before you read the re… Continue

If you're a fan of world music, then you're in for a treat with Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls' Playing for Change: Peace Through Music, a film that premiered at the 7th Annual Tribeca Film Festival. It isn't really a documentary as much as a global concert film, re… Continue

The Click Song Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 10 November 2008) was a South African singer and civil rights activist. The Grammy Award winning afrobeat artist is often referred to as Mama Afrika. Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. Her mother was a Swazi sangoma and her father, who died when she was six, was a Xhosa. As a child, she sang at the Kilmerton Training Institute in Pretoria, which she attended for eight years. Makeba first toured w … Continue