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Blogged Determination
I don’t have a blogroll. My one-column blog format doesn’t allow much room for one. I would, however, like to give a shout to a few folks I know who also find themselves in the addictive realm of the...
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Africa in the Picture V
From the collection of Chris Parsley, a hand painted Ghanaian barber shop sign. Check out the website of Philadelphia’s Indigo Arts Gallery for their extensive collection, Bon Coiffeur: Barber Signs...
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The Trove: Amy Linden
Over wildly tangential brunch conversation at Le Gamin, reminiscing about old Fort Greene with and enjoying the rapid-fire wit of Amy Linden, she remembered our introduction at the long-gone Albee...
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The Trove: Henry Adebonojo
With the same great love for capturing the moment through the moving image as for distilling the essence in a single frame, cinematographer/ photographer Henry Adebonojo is “happiest when I am making...
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The Trove: Barney Bishop
Holding court on West Broadway. The alliteratively named Barney Bishop was graced with a name befitting his dapper bearing. When we met for coffee recently at Soho’s Ground Support, he sported...
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The Trove: Fanon Che Wilkins
The polymathic professor. Since meeting the powerfully named Fanon Che Wilkins over a year ago while dancing Michael Jackson’s memory to the skies in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, I have seen him only...
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The Trove: Nicole Blades
NB: Smart, savvy, quick-witted ”and, to top it off nicely, Canadian.” In 1967 during a mass “Brain Drain” from his native Barbados, Telecom engineer Tony Blades headed to Montreal to create a new life...
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The Trove: Aisha Cousins
Aisha Cousins: Capricorn from the Sun to the Moon. In 1990′s Fort Greene, amid a flourishing poetry scene at his Brooklyn Moon Cafe, proprietor Mike Thompson began showcasing the works of visual...
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The Trove: Anu Prestonia
Advancing the acceptance of natural beauty, the radiant hair care icon. So certain that their first-born child would be a boy, Barbra Jean and Preston Newsome awaited son Preston, Jr. When their Aries...
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The Trove: Marcia Jones
The artist at her recently opened exhibition, Live and in Stereo(type) Photo: Gantt Center. In 2009 visual artist Marcia Jones chose to inaugurate her brave and unabashedly personal blog, untitled...
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