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Category: Giving Them Their Roses

TINA TURNER

i dreamed about my mother for the first time in a long time last night. waking from those all-too-real dreams used…
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Posted on: May 27, 2023 Last updated on: May 27, 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

SALT-N-PEPA

On November 28, 1993, The New York Times published journalist Jeffrey Schmalz’s last article, “Whatever Happened to AIDS?,” three weeks…
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Posted on: May 8, 2023 Last updated on: May 8, 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

JACKIE SHANE

the last time jackie shane graced a stage was in toronto, canada in december 1971. after decades of swirling rumors that she had…
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Posted on: February 6, 2023 Last updated on: May 4, 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

GANGSTA BOO

My mother was the first person to teach me about female rap. It was through album and radio plays, and…
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Posted on: January 12, 2023 Last updated on: May 4, 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

We Speak Their Names

may we all find the safety that we deserve. may we hold each other closer. and may we all continue…
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Posted on: November 22, 2022 Last updated on: November 22, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

SAM HARRIS

decades before american idol opened the floodgates for the talent show genre of reality tv, there was the ultimate variety…
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Posted on: July 30, 2022 Last updated on: July 30, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

UNCANNY ALLIANCE

in the early 1990s, there was no shortage of dance groups from new york garnering national notoriety at both the…
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Posted on: June 30, 2022 Last updated on: June 30, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

VICTORIA ARELLANO

Today is National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD). It is a day to educate our communities about the…
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Posted on: April 10, 2022 Last updated on: April 10, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie
Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson: A Deep Appreciation Of

i met robert on the very first day of school of the seventh grade in september 1989. i knew as soon…
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Posted on: February 14, 2022 Last updated on: February 14, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

CAUSHUN

“Would there ever be a place for black gay/queer/SGL in hip hop?”, a question I asked myself in my youth.…
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Posted on: February 10, 2022 Last updated on: February 10, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

OAKTOWN’S 357

oaktown’s 357 were one of hip-hop’s most exciting groups of the early 1990s. heir combination of catchy rhymes, dope fashions,…
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Posted on: February 7, 2022 Last updated on: February 7, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

LIZ TORRES

one of the first chicago house music singers to garner national notoriety in the mid-80s, especially in gay clubs, liz…
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Posted on: January 31, 2022 Last updated on: February 1, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie
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