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#GlobalFusionPlaylist : Always A Future in Soul Music: #FutureIcons

#GlobalFusionPlaylist : Always A Future in Soul Music: #FutureIcons

#GlobalFusionPlaylist #SoulMusic #Growth #FutureIcons 2013: Reclaiming!

 

 

 

 

 

 

As I had to look at the social media floating images of Nicki Minaj on all 4′s with Lil Wayne behind her promoting a song called “High School” no less-LOL-SMH…#Befitting #HigherLevels #Education. Thank »

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Marvin Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984): Remembering Marvin In Ostend, Beligum

Marvin Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984): Remembering Marvin In Ostend, Beligum

Marvin Gaye was born as Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. – undeniably one of the greatest musicians of all time by any local or global standards. Marvin Gaye put the soul in music bathed in a spiritual purification and awakening, as well as pure unadulterated ecstasy »

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Spring 2013 Spring Hauteness: Globalization of Fashion

Spring 2013 Spring Hauteness: Globalization of Fashion

Spring 2013 is here to celebrate the global traveler in all of us, where everything goes and it is up to us to explore all that the world has to offer all of our senses. From spicy and savory tastes, to pungent and sweet floral »

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Jada Pinkett-Smith Says It’s Time To Woman Up for Women’s History Month & Our Future!

Jada Pinkett-Smith Says It’s Time To Woman Up for Women’s History Month & Our Future!

I just spent this morning reading some articles that made this post from Jada Pinkett-Smith’s Facebook page a much needed and welcomed read to summarize all that I have been feeling from reading these articles. First I read about Zerlina Maxwell’s story entitled “Teaching »

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Catholic Church Names New Pope After Francis :The Rebuilder -Yet Will There Be Change in The Re-Building?

Catholic Church Names New Pope After Francis :The Rebuilder -Yet Will There Be Change in The Re-Building?

After Pope Benedict’s resignation, everyone around the world was glued into the Vatican on 3/13/13 - a mystical kind of number ushering in a mystical carnivalesque kind of celebration, and a seemingly new beginning bringing together the past and the future with social »

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2013: Israel Showcases its Move Toward Diversity: Israel Crowns Its First Black Miss Israel and First Black Parliamentarian

2013: Israel Showcases its Move Toward Diversity: Israel Crowns Its First Black Miss Israel and First Black Parliamentarian

By now most of the world has heard the news or maybe not since this has received very limited global media attention outside of specific internet outlets, that Israel started 2013 on the path to a more inclusive Israel by electing Pnina Tamano-Shata as »

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Uhuru Kenyatta Son of Kenya’s First President Makes History As the Youngest Elected President in Kenya

Uhuru Kenyatta Son of Kenya’s First President Makes History As the Youngest Elected President in Kenya

Uhuru Kenyatta, one of Kenya’s richest men and the son of Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta, has won the presidential election despite facing charges by the International Criminal Court of financing post-electoral violence in 2007…Uhuru Kenyatta makes history by becoming the East African nation’s »

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RIP El Comandante … El Presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez

RIP El Comandante … El Presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez

After a hard fought two year battle with cancer, El Comandante AKA Hugo Chávez has been called home to his final resting place amongst true world revolutionaries and socialist leaders such as Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, who ironically the nation of Ghana will be celebrating »

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Africans in China : YAPs Made in China

Africans in China : YAPs Made in China

While we are used to hearing about China taking over Africa, we often hear little to nothing about Africans exploring their destiny in China. From African migrants who have made China their home for decades-owning businesses and raising a new generation of Africans in China, »

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Dissecting the Global African,European and Catholic Origins of Carnival

Dissecting the Global African,European and Catholic Origins of Carnival

It’s that time of year again when the world along with global Africans celebrate their history and roots culture in pure decadence before the religious advent season where we practice self discipline and cleanse from the debauchery of Carnival! From New Orleans, to Trinidad and »

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