TransGriot Note: I've always loved this song and the lyrics contained in it by British singer Labi Siffre. While this 1985 song was ...

Today would have been the 59th birthday of one of my fave singers back in the day, Luther Ronzoni Vandross. He was born on this date in Ne...

Being the 70's music lover I am, there was an interesting topic posted on Womanist Musings in which Renee and Sparky debated 70's ve...

If you watched the movie Drumline , you got a taste of this event that will be happening this Saturday in the ATL. The 2010 edition of the ...

Was shocked to hear as I tuned in to the TJMS that Teddy Pendergrass, one of my favorite soul singers of the 70's and early 80's die...

1969 was quite the year for historical events. This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of one that has taken on legendary proportions. I w...

I've loved me some Sade ever since her slammin' debut album 'Diamond Life' hit the airwaves in 1985. I own every one of h...

While I'm a huge fan of current R&B artists such as Alicia Keys, John Legend, Chrisette Michele, Beyonce, Jill Scott and others, my ...

April 20 has a lot of negativity associated with it in terms of being Adolf Hitler's birthday and the anniversary date of the Columbine ...

These Black transwomen have the skillz to pay the bills. Introducing Foxxjazell and Pam Jones from the 310 and Katey Red from the 504. ...

When I wrote my ' If I Were President ' post a year before Election Day 2008, little did I suspect that the thinking exercise I enga...

It's been a while since I talked about Angelica Ross and what she's been up to. I recently received an e-mail from her stating tha...

If you are a music lover like I am, take a moment today to bow in the direction of Detroit before it's over. Today was the day 50 yea...

Another installment in my ongoing series of articles on transgender and non-transgender women who have qualities that I admire. I haven...

Pardon Nile Rodgers and the rest of Chic if they're starting to feel like All my Children's Susan Lucci. Susan was nominated 18 ti...

Remember Kim Petras, the German teen who is believed to be the youngest person in the world to ever undergo GRS? Boy, how time flies. Three...

Today is Michael Jackson's 50th Birthday! It kind of blows me away that the shy kid I met at a Houston hotel when my dad's stati...

I reread the Elisabeth Withers post I wrote last year. While I was doing so it reminded me of a project I was working on before I moved t...

I did a post in honor of the Fourth of July called National Anthems with Soul . I put together a short list of great African-American perfo...

Today is our country's 234th birthday. Later tonight, depending on where you are, there will be fireworks, celebrations, and concerts g...