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Black Press preserves truths, champions Black voices
Seeing America’s real racial truth — laid bare under the current president — is both jarring and informative.
America has never truly or fully stopped viewing and treating some Americans differently than others based on the color of their skin.
Today, we watch a large segment of America’s white majority, estimated by the Census Bureau at 56.3%, cling to the red, white and blue as if it were theirs alone.
They use words like heritage, patriot, post-racial and merit to support their beliefs and behaviors — always endeavoring throughout our history to elevate themselves while diminishing the relevance, voice and culture of those who truly built America but do not look like them.
Mathew Knowles reimagines Destiny's Child classics in an intimate tribute experience
More than two decades after Destiny’s Child became one of the defining voices of R&B and pop, founder and longtime manager Mathew Knowles is inviting fans to experience the group’s music in an entirely new way.
Following a successful first run of sold-out performances, Destiny’s Child: Iconic Reimagined Tribute returns this summer for its Phase 2 tour, transforming the trio’s biggest hits into immersive orchestral performances done surrounded by thousands of candles.
Created by Knowles and his company, Music World Entertainment, the production combines a live string quintet, audience sing-alongs and personal storytelling courtesy of Knowles himself, into a 70-minute celebration of the group’s legacy.
For Knowles, the tribute comes at the right moment.
“I thought, as we are looking at the 25th year, it was time to really give honor to the ladies, individually and collectively,” he says.
“There would be no Beyoncé, there would be no Michelle on Broadway, there would be no Kelly on television if it wasn’t for Destiny’s Child setting that foundation.”
An empire of hair
NEW YORK — When Olivia Joan Galli was a girl, she didn't fully grasp that she and her siblings were hair royalty.
"There are still memories I have of my mom putting us between her legs and putting the product in our hair but not understanding that it's my grandparents'," she said recently in her Manhattan apartment.
Galli, 28, is a granddaughter of George and Joan Johnson, co-founders of Johnson Products Co.
The couple sold Black hair products and cosmetics like Ultra Sheen and Afro Sheen, building successes in the 1950s and '60s into the first Black-owned company to be listed on a major American stock exchange.
It wasn't until much later that Galli started to realize that her grandfather, who died this month at 99, knew his stuff.
(Her grandmother died in 2019.)
She had just returned home from boarding school, where sports often left her hair disheveled.
Her grandfather asked her mother when she had last washed her daughter's hair.
"I was like, 'She doesn't have to wash my hair anymore, Papa,'" Galli said.
Johnson wasn't convinced.
"It's dry," he replied.
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