The Why Black Women Are Angry blog talks about Juanita Bynum’s descent into nutdom in January’s Essence magazine.
Cocoa Lounge likes the idea of Iman hosting the Canadian version of Project Runway.
Africa’s stepping up its exporting of high quality food to the US. The strawberries you’re eating this winter just might be coming from Ethiopia. (Hat tip to Timbuktu Chronicles)
Chinese Connection 2007: The Chinese are just busting the USA’s ass in Africa in regard to investment. Check Jen Brea’s blog.
Black Rock German-style. Check Noah Sow’s My Space page.
Her name is Measha Brueggergosman and aside from being incredibly beautiful, she’s a classical soprano and the talk of the classical music world in Canada. In the last few years she’s performed for the Queen of England, Nelson Mandela and just debuted with the New York Philharmonic this past July.
Reading her press clippings makes you realize how much information seems to get checked at the border along with passports. Americans in general know very little about Canada, and Black folk know even less about Black Canada. But that’s what we’re here for, right?
Neverthessless, Measha’s been getting rave reviews in Amsterdam, Brussels, Vancouver, Halifax, San Francisco and Miami. She comes back down to the US in October for a three day session with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in DC, and then Carnie Hall in November.
She’s not limited to opera, either (not that opera’s limiting exactly). Check her on her MySpace page , see videos and listen her gospel/classical version of Going Up Yonder.
For the record, here’s how you pronounce her name. Kinds sounds like it looks.
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