Remember that song? I do. I grew up on it and all the other Disney stuff. I still watch the Disney Channel from time to time. The Mandalorian and the rest of those Star Wars derivatives are well-written sci-fi dramas. The network is more American than apple pie. More than our country’s prime-time melodramas. I…
The Only Problem With A “Woke” America; Is That It’s Not.
Another Cloudy Day in America. So What Happened? The University of North Carolina, Harvard University, and Students for Fair Admissions vs. Affirmative Action is what! “The Supreme Court ruled on June 29, 2023, that colleges and universities can no longer consider race as a specific basis in college admissions. Chief Justice John Robers, a…
Cairo: The City of the Living and the Dead.
The Land of Lapis Lazuli & Gold. Part 1 After twenty years of performing and teaching Belly Dance, going to Egypt felt more like an obligatory pilgrimage than a vacation, and she was ready to get started. As the plane’s wheels touched down on the Cairo International Airport’s runway, Nia snatched off her seat belt and jumped…
Show Some Respect.
“Today, I ask you to honor all Black women who chose to grace this planet with their love, tenderness, vulnerability, and pain. A Black woman’s power to create change wherever she goes is magical and sublime. Her innocence is often destroyed by those who resent her compelling truths. That even her angels struggle…
The Borg Queen
Is this the end of Humanity? “Space: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. “ Reaching For The Stars. Some people say we got a lot…