“I don’t believe when I was an ‘ingenue,’ that I ever got to say words that were written by a woman. It was always written by an older man, who imagined what a pretty girl wanted to talk about.” Lea Thompson is perhaps best known for her role as the […]
Larry Dunn’s Anthology of Earth, Wind & Fire will be performing at the Music Box in San Diego on Sunday, July 21, 2019. This concert celebrates Earth, Wind & Fire’s honor at the Kennedy Center (Kennedy Center Honors) in December 2019. Larry joined Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) in 1971 […]
Attending an award ceremony with the distinction of honoring strong women was refreshing . . . and it was my second time. I was there last year in the thick of the excitement as honorees mingled in the atmosphere of what I call greatness. And this year was no different. […]
On Saturday, April 13, 2019, at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (F.I.D.M.) in Downtown Los Angeles, the Black Design Collective (BDC) honored Academy Award-winner costume designer Ruth E. Carter for their inaugural ceremony, in partnership with AT&T. Carter has been the wardrobe mastermind behind many iconic films to […]
Women car accessory inventors such as actress Florence Lawrence and Mary Anderson; African American women factory workers during WW2; and race car drivers like Nitro Nellie Goins and Denice McCluggage existed during a time when it was “strictly” forbidden territory for women to participate, invent, compete in what was considered […]
What makes this film particularly interesting is its diverse cast and roles. The complex archetypical male is portrayed by extreme characters, which I learned to love as the film played out. These characters ranged from macho to passive to A-type workaholics to a hardworking immigrant. It’s a men’s group that meets […]
