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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
October 14, 2014
Much has been made of Shonda Rhimes as a black screenwriter and television producer. She undoubtedly is a trailblazer as […]
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 16, 2014
theGRIO REPORT – With his latest publication, ‘Cosby: His Life and Times,’ Mark Whitaker, author of the memoir ‘On My Long Trip Home,’ tackles the many faces of Bill Cosby…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
February 24, 2014
REVIEW – However strong your sense of personal identity, ‘Boy, Snow, Bird’ is likely, if you’re reading it right, to make you a bit uncomfortable in your own skin, and that’s quite an achievement…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 18, 2013
REVIEW – Rashad’s effervescent Juliet completely transcends race politics as does the genuinely un-contrived diversity of the rest of the cast…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
REVIEW – Touching on race, class, sexuality, and gender, shows such as this are breaking ground in format as much as in characterization, reaching beyond the scope of typical TV storytelling…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 9, 2013
James Brown may forever be known as the hardest working man in show business; but, when it comes to bestselling authors, the intrepid business woman behind the nom de plume Zane might very well be the hardest working woman in erotic fiction.
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
theGRIO REPORT – Mos Def continues to draw attention to the issues at the core of the trial in a PSA-styled video that was released on May 21st in conjunction with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Communities United for Police Reform (CPR)…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
April 23, 2013
REVIEW – Overall this production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is solid, successfully using its new context without feeling one bit contrived or gimmicky…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
REVIEW – The Whitney Museum of American Art exhibit, ‘Blues for Smoke,’ features an exciting array of works by a wide range of contemporary black artists. But it offers so much more…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
April 8, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – Alexis Adler, who lived with Basquiat before he was famous, recently revealed plans to share a previously unseen, thirty-year-old collection of art works and ephemera from the early career of the tragic and the prolific creator Jean-Michel Basquiat…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
February 10, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – When it comes to filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, looking forward, looking ahead, is not just hopeful, it is essential…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 16, 2012
REVIEW – ‘NW’, the latest literary contribution from Zadie Smith – the critically acclaimed author of ‘White Teeth’, ‘The Autograph Man’, and ‘On Beauty’ – does not quake with theatrical plot twists or crackle with the suspense of a mystery or adventure…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 1, 2012
REVIEW – At moments one can’t help but wonder: are the people occupying the ‘bathtub’ in fact the beasts of the southern wild?…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
June 5, 2012
SLIDESHOW – A writer takes a stroll through the Anguila Literary Festival…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
REVIEW – If you enjoy the cheap highs and lows of daytime drama, stories of moral impunity, and admittedly colorful, if difficult to understand, characters (and who doesn’t sometimes!), give this a fair shot…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
REVIEW — With ‘An Economy of Grace’, Kehinde Wiley offers a sumptuous feast for the eyes and an addendum to the political and aesthetic explorations of his earlier works…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
REVIEW – With ‘Home’, Morrison continues to beg the reader to reflect critically on notions of identity, race, gender and class, and, perhaps most importantly, to examine what me mean when we talk about freedom…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
April 26, 2012
REVIEW – The potential for a production with a black cast of this caliber and a play this multi dimensional seems endless, but Mann does little to promote a new perspective on Williams’ masterpiece..