Hair Raising

Thursday, 19 March 2009, 14:15 | Category : Culture
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I’m listening to NPR this morning. There’s a story about hair…actually shampoo. Breaking news – “We” don’t have to shampoo our hair every day.” Who is the “we”? Who is the “us”? Who are the “Americans” all of us – the ones who shampoo daily? If you have kinky, curly, or Moe hair, you don’t [...]

The Body Electric

Friday, 5 December 2008, 20:08 | Category : African American, Culture, Music, People, Television
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For the past two days NPRs been reporting on Keith Terry’s First International Body Music Festival in San Francisco. Body percussion and music is not the new thing — at least to me because one of my BFFs, David Pleasant, has been doing it like FOR-EVA. You see, David is Gullah, from the Georgia Sea [...]