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I, Witness!
As someone who has been a fitness professional for over 25 years, I’ve witnessed the good and the bad within the fitness industry. I am fortunate to be a member of a gym where I am incognito. No one knows who I am or what I d...
NYFW 18’ Vivienne Tam Collection
In February of 2018, Tam presented her Fall/Winter 2018 collection, inspired by a “spiritual journey” through the Himalayas to Tibet, in Gallery I of Spring Studios. This fall her collection was shown during N.Y. Fa...
East Side Su-She
For centuries, in seemingly, ever country, male dominance has been at the forefront of every society. Many cultures to this day, hold steadfast to the past treatment of women as inferior, and less than. In our more modernistic ...
Running For His Life
I happened upon a documentary, “Running for His Life” while flipping through the movie section of our streaming network, about former NFL player and college phenom Lawrence Phillips. What garnered my attention was how the p...
QUINCY
With nearly 3,000 songs recorded, 300 albums, 51 film and television scores, and 27 Grammy awards, Quincy Jones is to put it mildly, undoubtedly a living legend. ‘QUINCY’, the documentary directed by Rashida Jones and Alan ...
THE WIZ
Forget everything you thought you knew about the iconic stage play “The Wiz”. If you were fortunate enough to see the original 1975 Broadway production that won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, or the even more...
The Black Panther: All about History and Lineage
In April of 1966, six months before the Black Panther Party was established, Marvel Comic’s Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created a new superhero that was a native of an African continent, who was a black prince from one of the wea...
Mudbound
The film ‘Mudbound’ takes place in rural Mississippi where a young white family comes to acquire the management of a farm that is being sharecropped by a black family. This is taking place at the end of the fighting in Euro...
GOOK
A film about race and family set against the backdrop of the L.A. Riots Los Angeles, CA (April 19, 2017) – Samuel Goldwyn Films announced today the acquisition of the 2017 Sundance audience award winner GOOK. The film, writt...