[1966]). But Motown packaged its acts as clean-cut and acceptable, as it sought to sell to white teens. As thecivil rights movementgained steam, African American artists grew more politically aware. Rooted in personal expression, their musicresonateswith self-assertion, culminating in Brown’s...
She tossed me aside and help the next 3 people that was there having complication on paying their weekly bill. She totally ignore me for standing 1/2 hour there. Then told me to come back at 3pm. 3. When I came back to the property to check in at 3pm. She told me there are ...
In the summer of 2016, as Rhodes continued to stage pop-up dinners, he began to make plans for Indigo, which he named, in part, after the shrub whose leaves had been harvested for dye making, by enslaved people in the antebellum South. The restaurant would be an all-hands ...
“I think (the stabbing showed me) what could happen to me if I didn’t straighten out my life,” Brown says. “Before that, I was nonchalant about (the future). They had all kinds of programs to give kids summer jobs, but we were into parties.” His brother Tommy, who now manage...
Hard-to-find rarities included “One Moment In Time,” the 1988 Summer Olympics theme; 1991’s Super Bowl XXV version of “The Star Spangled Banner”; and a 1986 duet with Jermaine Jackson (“If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful”) released only on his second Arista album,Precious Moments, ...