Last year I sat on my couch at home and soaked in the first installment of  CNN’s special: Black in America, wondering what other people were thinking. I was craving open discussions, feedback, and the ability to put collaborative plans into action.  Instead of the face to face socializing, I settled for the mass media outlet of blogging and [...]

I recently went to see The Wiz live in NYC. I have seen the movie version several times and know almost all the songs by heart. I began to think about other movies and their live shows that I have seen; “The Lion King”, ‘Tarzan”, “The Grinch Whole Stole Christmas”, etc. There are many differences [...]

Disney is planning to release “The Princess and the Frog” later this year. Until this point none of Disney’s Princesses have been African American (A native Indian princess was featured in Pocahontas and Jasmine from Aladdin had an Arabic background).  The animated film will feature Disney’s first African American Princess, right on the tail of [...]