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creates things. thoughts are my own. born + raised in the 252. he/him

Washington, D.C.
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WHAT IS HAPPENING & WHY ARE THESE BABIES SLAYING MY SPIRIT & BELTING MY EDGES RIGHT OFF OF MY HEAD?
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top tier mother/daughter casting
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“You Don’t Know My Bayang”
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New side of Alicia to introduce you to. Nice to meet you. I’m ready 4 tonight at the @BBMAs at 8pm ET 💎💎💎
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Y’all look at Vanessa THE Williams reenacting her infamous Soul Food scene. Legendary.
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Cast of Living Single at the 2023 Writers Guild Awards which honored creator Yvette Lee Bowser (middle). 🥺❤️
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Wakanda Girlfriendsssss... There through thick & thin.
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A moment for Mel B’s Bantu knots.
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Vivica A. Fox Says She Hasn't Experienced Taraji P. Henson's Work Woes | Click to read more 👇
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The audacity to come out swinging with that much energy. Every strand of hair on that stage was moving. En Vogue really is one of the greatest groups of all time. Fight me.
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Cleaning out a storage room at my mom’s and look what TF I found.
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“When You Believe” (1998)
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New rare of Tiny and Kandi (1998)
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When Skai Jackson reminds you that the children are indeed the future, teach them shade & let them READ the way...
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My ankles. Complete lack of coordination. Full body casts. The sound of mom’s voice yelling at me to get TF down. Common sense. The Lord. Living to get another Rihanna album. A stomach full of food at any given time. Knees that pop when I think about it. Gravity. This emoji 🥴.
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What prevents you from doing this?
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I'd like to be as excited about anything in life as Sarah Jessica Parker was about the #SolarEclipse2017 .
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1) AI is scary af. 2) This eats.
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Have yall heard the original version of Pound Town???? 🤯🫣
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Give Jasmine Guy her FLOWERS.
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Phyllis Hyman doing the gahdamn thing on her cover of Bobby Caldwell's "What You Won't Do For Love," live on Letterman in '86 is a MOOD.
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I had to.
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This better smell like the lobby of a Bojangles.
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The unintended irony of Taraji bringing this very necessary pay equity conversation forward while on a promo tour of an Oprah-produced project 12/13 years after Mo’Nique refused to work for free to promote another Oprah-produced project and was chastised and blackballed for it…
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This is so sad.
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1 year
A moment for Sarita Choudhury (who is currently taking #AndJustLikeThat by storm) and Denzel Washington in MISSISSIPPI MASALA (1992).
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queens of holding these men accountable in a court of law.
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audience, cast, crew. gagged.
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Name a time a celebrity gagged the live audience..
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i love being gay. we get to make references like this.
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gays will say “let’s watch a Christmas movie” and put these on
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@heyjaeee
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gays will say “let’s watch a Christmas movie” and put these on
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Harold Perrineau as Mercutio in Romeo + Juliet (1996). That’s the tweet.
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Y’all know who we need on #RHOA ?
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Love how Solange is uplifting Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's work in hers. This piece is called "Complication" (2013).
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I didn’t work so hard with the author to get her biography back in print after years of it being out of circulation for people to not read it and get the full story. Plz, for the love of God, read the book and stop making up narratives.
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@cyanopreme
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I’m sorry but knowing that she was this beautiful and this talented and still struggled with dating and relationships so severely that it ultimately caused her to fall into a depression and commit suicide will always rip my heart into pieces
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I think about this clip of Tichina Arnold’s audition tape for “The Color Purple” on Broadway quite often.
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Beyoncé. A most unserious woman.
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5 years
My very own Louis Vuitton cat carrier?
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Every single damn time Viola Davis opens her mouth:
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Y’all. AMEN is on Tubi.
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Phyllis & Aretha.
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Res - How I Do (2001)
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Starring Cynthia Erivo as Sammy
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MGM and @LenaWaithe are teaming up for a Sammy Davis Jr. biopic
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Her gift is otherworldly. Jazmine Sullivan, folks.
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The legendary Phyllis Hyman walking the Paris is Burning ball in 1990 as part of the House of Continental. Full video (via SugarChampagne):
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Mo'Nique should've just blown this up poster size & carried it on stage as soon as Steve Harvey started talking that shuck & jive ridiculousness.
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Attention! “A Diva’s Christmas Carol” is coming on VH1 at 12:30pm ET, TODAY! Set your DVRs accordingly. RT for a homosexual somewhere!
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Didn’t parent proof my house. Mom came in my bedroom and asked what my bottle of p*ppers was. I lied and told her it was essential oils.
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Anita Baker sounds TF goodt. GOODT. We are not deserving.
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It's Betty Davis' birthday. North Carolina's funk queen. The (for real) first girl to scream on a track. We don't deserve your badassness.
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Dionne Warwick’s outfit on The Bob Hope Show in 1974 lives rent free in my head.
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My person conflict resolution strategy is battle-singing Beyonce's "Listen".
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happy pride to this now emmy winner
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i love being gay. we get to make references like this.
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When you get caught sneaking into the #KimExposedTaylorParty after swearing you don't care about celebrity gossip...
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Everyone: P!nk better not be swinging from the rafters at this year's #GRAMMYs . P!nk: *wears jeans and stands still* Everyone:
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Y'all get into this shady exchange from this 1994 CBS pilot for a show called "Slauson Heights" (or "Wind Beneath My Wings") starring Sheryl Lee Ralph & Iona Morris (the legendary voice of Storm from X-Men: The Animated Series). I cannot stop laughing. AVON! SPAM! SWAP MEET!
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IF BEYONCÉ SAYS IT'S CLIMATE CHANGE, IT'S CLIMATE CHANGE. WHAT ELSE DO YALL NEED? #HandInHand
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Sylvester really had Debbie Allen, Jasmine Guy, and Janet Hubert boom kackin’ in the “Someone Like You” video. 🔥 (shout out to @GranVarones for lifting this back up)
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A who what?
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First look at Ashanti in “A New Diva’s Christmas Carol”, airing Dec. 14 at 8/7c! The film also stars Eva Marcille, Robin Givens, Mckenzie Small and Mel B.
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country folks. what’s in this jar?
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So happy I live in a world where Heather Headley exists.
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Made it to 35. Feeling blessed. ❤️
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Today, iHeartPodcasts announced the launch of Native Land Pod hosted by Angela Rye, Tiffany D. Cross, and Andrew Gillum.
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The spirit of accomplished camerawoman & videographer Aretha overtook that camera operator's hand & lead his/her lens straight to Big Sean during Ariana's performance. Shady even from beyond. A legend. #ArethaHomegoing
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"Paris is Burning" turns 25 today. We've lost most of its stars but their unattributed & heavily appropriated impact is every-damn-where.
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Took exactly one photo this whole long weekend. Of course it’s a bathroom selfie.
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Natalie slowly realizing she’s dating a Black man in real time. 😂 #SummerHouseMV
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Alright @Billboard . Shake a table.
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Gay black men helped create EDM so why do straight white men dominate it?
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Going forward, "Reclaiming my time!" is how I'll verbally enforce self-care upon detection of the slightest bit of fuckery. QUEEN MAXINE.
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I WANT CHARLAYNE WOODARD ON MY TELEVISION SCREEN EVERY WEEK. SHE IS A WALKING, TALKING MASTERCLASS. That’s all. #PoseFx
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I fixed Gizelle's.
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#RHOP S7 Reunion Looks! (1/3) 🌸
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Your Twitter Circles are safe with me.
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16 luggage(s)
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16 Marriages
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🗣️🗣️🗣️ATTENTION! 🗣️🗣️🗣️ Kelis' sophomore LP, "Wanderland" is available on all streaming services!
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The girls are storming the stage in premieres this year.
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It's the way Avery*Sunshine looks directly at and sings right TO Fantasia. This clip been getting me together regularly every since 2014.
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Juan Be Lovin’ Me Sometimes
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Robyn as Mariah Carey 😭 #RHOP
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Seems like folks have classics covered. Let's talk a lil bit 'bout what folks may have missed post-Superbowl mess. "I Want You" (2004) was written by Kanye West, John Legend, & Harold Lilly. Produced by Kanye, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis. A doo-wop BOP. #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay
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@MANlSTOE Toccara in the back being nosey. Lolol.
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I often think about the way Alice Smith straight mopped the floor with her cover of Cee-Lo's "Fool For You" on Black Girls Rock in 2013. So good it ain't even Cee-Lo's damn song anymore.
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Fun fact: Rachelle Ferrell is actually humming here.
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DC dudes forward AF. Dude on a bike flagged me down while I was running. Him: Take my number. Call it right now. Me:
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hey y’all. happy sunday.
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Somebody put Harriette Winslow in a Marvel movie.
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Giving my best @Jidenna for #Halloween .
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Mood board.
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@callmedollar Well maybe I don't wanna be called sweet baby all the damn time either.
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Janet Jackson was on album three before anyone gave AF, an award, a coin, a sale -- & she's a Jackson. Social media got these folks thinking the grind stops at 6 months and 500k followers. Hate to see it.
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This whole fit too. 🔥
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Showing back up on Facebook after Twitter dies…
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Got my tiny ass running shorts on for this lunch time run. Woman just yelled from clear across the intersection “These bitches could neverrrrrrr!” Hype me up, sis. 🙌🏽😂
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Cree Summer at Zoë Kravitz’s wedding is a mood though. Also, hey Marissa Tomei!
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Happy Saturday friends.
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Two things can be true, y'all. Vivica could bring in as much as Taraji through her ventures on TV, etc. AND Taraji can expect to be paid to scale for starring in big budget films, as her white peers do. Vivica chose to speak on a systemic issue from a mostly individual lens.
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Wild Orchid (Fergie’s old girl group) was a moment. You couldn’t tell them they were singing down.
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the design nerd in me is LIVING for the tracklisting being hair types & the typography playing off each type. genius.
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at least my mom doesn’t look like all the mess she’s going through. ❤️💅🏽
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At this point in her career, Janet owes us nothing. Yet, here she is reminding us how her catalogue is unrivaled and deeper than than the Pacific. What a privilege to still get to witness all of her magnificence. #ESSENCEFest
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I really think #Unsung is the best television offering of the last decade. Something so powerful about being able to archive the stories of our oft-forgotten entertainers from their own mouths. So many stories that can't be told because they are no longer with us.
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Diahann Carroll. Rest well, legend.
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