#strongblacklegend

[bellebrut]

Beyoncé’s back with her @Netflix film #Homecoming, so it’s time to re-up my take on her 2018 #Coachella performance AKA #Beychella. #art #style #fashion #creative #music #film #inspiration #fortheculture #strongblacklegend #strongblacklead #blackgirlsrock : : Anyone, and I mean ANTYONE, who did not watch #HBEYCU at BEYCHELLA missed out. It was a party on Twitter with memes and tweets making Beychella and Beyoncé more tweeted than #Coachella in the past two days of the 2018 Coachella fest. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter, the first Black woman to headline Coachella, gave a concert that was more for the fans watching online than the undeserving, under excited fans at Coachella. She literally danced and performed herself out of her costume. : : Beyoncé gave an authentic #HBCU experience with a marching band, a choir, a step show, a pledge line, plus the most phenomenal back up dancers, including Les Twins (Do your Googles, if you’re not familiar), dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Beyonce singing the National Black Anthem, “Lift Every Voice,” an homage to Fela Kuti, Malcom X, Nina Simone and The Wiz. Additionally, there was a Destiny’s Child reunion, a dance party with sister Solange Knowles, oh and Jay-Z stopped by. : : I’m not in the #Beyhive, but I fully appreciated that concert, and I’ve seen some legends. She is a supreme performer and gave her all in a two-hour concert that was free to her true fans, who, from what I can tell via social media, had the most exciting night ever inside the comfort of their own homes. : : And those amazing ass costumes - the fringed boots, the bright yellow sweatshirts that make me wanna pledge BKA sorority, designed in part, by the first Black designer to head a French fashion house, Olivier Rousteing of Balmain. : : All I can say is that it was the most unapologetically blickety Black, inspiring, energizing concert I’ve enjoyed from the comfort of my own home. And now we can watch on repeat. https://www.instagram.com/p/BwXydApBPB-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xpxdwsx9nr00

[k-m-k]

#DebbieAllen is featured on the season finale of the @strongblacklead podcast which focuses on #StrongBlackLegends. Get inspired as @therealdebbieallen talks with @brokeymcpoverty. / 📷: @jveloz LISTEN HERE http://smarturl.it/mb7dnf Debbie Allen 49:11 ▪ RELEASED MAY 05, 2020 This week, in our special season two finale, Tracy sits down with the legendary triple threat Debbie Allen. They talk about Debbie’s time at Howard University and how she got her role, on and off screen, on the set of tv series, Fame. They also talk about Debbie and Phylicia Rashad’s feature on Solange Knowles’ When I Get Home. Plus, Tracy gives flowers to the ultimate queen, Queen Latifah. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_5G_WchfEe/?igshid=tttpsqwah1c7

[mayuhh]

In a little over a week, the affectionately dubbed “who’s who” of Hollywood will gather to celebrate the 91st Academy Awards. In its 91 year history, the Academy has awarded the Oscar for Best Actress (lead or supporting role) to only 8 black women. (fun fact, only 8 black men have received said awards as well.) Not enough can be said about the joy one feels when they turn on the tv or settle down to watch a movie and they look up to see someone who looks like them on the screen. Anyone who knows me knows television and movies are the two things that bring me the most joy in life and for too long award season has felt like a never ending sea of white nominees. Just 3 years ago, April Reign started the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag to shed a light on what black folks have know for decades, PoC actors are consistently overlooked when it comes to award season.  After a major overhaul of Academy members last year, a small shift began to take place, but in 2019, we still having an alarming number of “firsts” being recognized.

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There is much work to be done when it comes to equal and proper representation of black folk in cinema. Though we have come a long way from Hattie McDaniel being forced to sit at a segregated table, set aside just for her and her guests, at the far end of a hotel restaurant with a “no-blacks” policy, it would be naive to say the race problem within Hollywood is anywhere near fixed. It’s also easy to say that all the weight and meaning behind having an Oscar is man-made. And that’s 100% true. People give these awards meaning and value and they don’t always go to the right person (considering we live in a world where Samuel L. Jackson does not have one, but Gwyneth Paltrow does) But to deny that there is something to be said about calling yourself an “Oscar-winning actress” or being recognized for all your hard work and dedication by your peers is it’s own form of naiveté.

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I find it pretty kismet that as I was preparing to post this, StrongBlackLead announced their new podcast venture #StrongBlackLegends, dedicated to giving black actors and actresses their figurative flowers for everything they have contributed to the culture. Something like that is long overdue. So I dedicate this #WCW to these eight extraordinary women. Each unique in their talent, yet bonded by their shared accomplishment. And Regina King, I look forward to adding your name to this list. 

[badlands75]

Badlands75RT @strongblacklead: I could listen to @lodivadevine talk about her memories of Whitney Houston for the rest of my life. Also, there was supposed to be a Waiting To Exhale 2 👀 #StrongBlackLegends LISTEN 👇🏾 https://t.co/Df66EnU4f5 https://t.co/HO29cIoI4k

I could listen to @lodivadevine talk about her memories of Whitney Houston for the rest of my life. Also, there was supposed to be a Waiting To Exhale 2 👀#StrongBlackLegends LISTEN 👇🏾https://t.co/Df66EnU4f5 pic.twitter.com/HO29cIoI4k

— Strong Black Lead (@strongblacklead) March 7, 2019

from Twitter https://twitter.com/Badlands75 March 06, 2019 at 11:54PM via IFTTT