Archive for the 'Big Beautiful Women' Category
That Photo From Facebook: Let’s Call Her The Woman Who Doesn’t Wear a Size 4
• June 11, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in Black People, Fashion, Race, Love, Class, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Cultural History, Big Beautiful Women, Diabetes, The Heart, Food, Facebook
Tags: Beauty, Women, Twitter, Facebook, Black People, Health, Clothing, Age, BBW, Big Beautiful Women, Shopping, Plus Size Model, Queen Size, Queen Size Wmen, Sizes 14W-34W, Size 4
Serena Does It Again at Wimbledon; Shares Doubles Title with Sister Venus
• July 7, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in Auto-Immune Diseases, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Health, Sports, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Travel, United Kingdom, Venus and Serena Williams, Womanism, Women
Tags: African American, African Americans, Agnieszka Radwańska, Andrea Hlaváčková, Black Women, Blacks, Centre Court, Grand Slam, Love, Martina Navratilova, Radwanska, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Serena, Serena Williams, The Championships Wimbledon, United States, Venus, Venus Williams, Williams
Some Saturday Love: Lalah Hathaway in Concert, “When Your Life Was Low”
• March 24, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Class, Cultural History, Education, Lalah Hathaway, Love, Music, Music Videos, Women
Tags: Arts, Daughter, Donny Hathaway, Eldest Daughter, Erykah Badu, Esperanza Spalding, Lalah, Lalah Hathaway, Lupe Fiasco, Meshell Ndegeocello, Mos Def, Music, Musiq Soulchild, Robert Glasper
Etta “Miss Peaches” James’ Viewing and Funeral Plans Announced
• January 25, 2012 • 3 CommentsPosted in African American History, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Etta James, Love, Music, People of Color, Protestant Denominations, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: African Americans, Al Sharpton, Black Women, Blacks, California, CNN, Donto James, Etta James, Friday, Funeral, Inglewood, Inglewood California, James, Johnny Otis, Los Angeles, Love, Rachel Noerdlinger, Rhythm & Blues Foundation, Sametto James, San Fernando Valley, Saturday, Singer, Tributes, Viewing, Wake
Fantasia Blowing It Again: Mahalia Jackson Estate “Aghast” at Her Pregnancy; Film Runs Risk of Folding
• October 9, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Women, Love, Sexuality, New Orleans, Film, Class, Abortion, Mental Health/Psychology, Acting, Spirituality, The Super Bowl, Protestant Denominations, African American History, Cultural History, Big Beautiful Women, Lena Horne, Distribution/Business, Janet Jackson, Mahalia Jackson, Fantasia Barrino
Tags: Sex, Motherhood, Common Sense, Growing Up, New York Post, African Americans, Blacks, Marriage, Pregnancy, Love, United States, Self-Worth, Self-Respect, Black Women, Gambling, Spending, Super Bowl Sunday, Mahalia Jackson, "Shadow and Act", Civil Rights Activist, Lena Horne, Gail Lumet Buckley, Single Mother, Fantasia Barrino, Antwaun Cook, Child Out of Wedlock, Euzhan Palcy, Fantasia, Missy Elliott, Barrino, Octavia Spencer, The Estate of Mahalia Jackson, The Estate of Lena Horne, Bad Karma, Bedridden, Wardrobe Malfunction, Queen of Gospel, Secular Music, Super Bowl 2004
FOUND: Actress-Model Mia Amber Davis Died From a Blood Clot in Her Lungs
• July 13, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Acting, African American History, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Fashion, Film, Health, Love, Sexuality, The Heart, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: Actress, African American Women, Big Beautiful Women, Black Women, Blacks, Blood Clot, Clots, E!Online, Knee Surgery, Los Angeles County California, Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, Love, Lung, Lungs, Mia Amber Davis, Michael Yard, Plus Size Model, Plus Size Women, Post-Surgery, Road Trip, Surgery, Thrombo-embolism, Thrombus, TMZ.com
Aretha Is Back
• May 10, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Aretha Franklin, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Democrats, Fashion, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Music, Obama Administration, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Sexuality, Spirituality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Respect", "Sunday Morning", Anthony Mason, Carolyn Franklin, CBS, Civil Rights, Dennis Edwards, Detroit, Good Friday, James Brown, Lady Soul, Michigan, Mystery, Privacy, Queen of Soul, Reticence, Reverend C.L. Franklin, Sam Cooke, Singer, Songwriter, Ted White, West Detroit
Phoebe.
• May 6, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Commercials, Cultural History, Differently-Abled, Health, Jews, Love, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Phoebe Snow, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Stroke, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Women
Tags: "Fresh", African Americans, Ashkenazi, Bessie Smith, Big Bill Broonzey, Billie Holiday, Blacks, Bohemian, CeCe Peniston, Children, Constables on Patrol, Differently-Abled, DNA Analysis, DNA profiling, Four-Octaves, General Foods, George Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Greenwich Village, Growing Up, Hallmark, Howard Stern, Iberian Peninsula, Jackson Browne, Jewry, Jews, Jimi Hendrix, Love, Martha Graham, Mavis Staples, Medically-Induced Coma, Michael McDonald, Michelob, Mother, Mother's Day, Muslims, New York, New York Rock and Soul Revue, Passing, Phil Kearns, Phoebe Ann Loeb, Phoebe Snow, Poetry Man, Robert DeNiro, Santana, Sephardic, Singer Songwriter, Sly Stone, Television Commercials, The Seventies, The Sisters of Glory, Thelma Houston, TV Commercials, Valerie Kearns, Woodstock 25
On Haitus for a Couple of Days More…Sorry. But Here’s A Little Something Something from Foghorn Leghorn
• April 10, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Health, Love, Plastic Surgery, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wendy Williams, Who I Am, Women
Tags: African Americans, Barnyard Dawg, Black Women, Blacks, Commercials, Common Sense, David Prosser, Foghorn Leghorn, GEICO, Golden Age of Warner Bros. Cartoons, Henery Hawk, Hiatus, Laptop, Madison WI, Resolving Problems, Self Image, Suzanne Somers, Television Commercials, TV Commercial, Warner Bros., Wendy Williams, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Serena Williams Shows What She’s Got in An “Unauthorized” Top Spin 4 Ad (w/Update)
• March 24, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Commercials, Cultural History, Fashion, Sexuality, Sports, Venus and Serena Williams, Women
Tags: 2K Sports, Anna Kournikova, Ass-ets, Clot, Lung, Maria Sharapova, Marketing, Reverse Psychology, Rileah Vanderbilt, Serena Williams, Tennis, Top Spin 4, Viral, YouTube
Saturday Night Music, March 19, 2011: Sting, “Sister Moon,” 1987
• March 20, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in Africans, Big Beautiful Women, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Books, Class, Cultural History, Education, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Fiction Writing, Love, Memoir, Race, Sexuality, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom, Who I Am, Women
Tags: "...Nothing Like The Sun", "A Clockwork Orange", "Sister Moon", Anthony Burgess, Birthdays, Black Women, Blacks, Dark, Dreadlocks, Earth, England, English Literature, Evil, Full Moon, Good, Light, Literary Allusions, Literature, Lucy Negro, Medusa, Moon, References, Shakespeare, Sonnet, Sonnet No. 130, Sonnets, Sting, Super Moon, The Oakland Colosseum, The Seventies, William Shakespeare
Aretha Says She Didn’t Have Gastric Bypass Surgery, But STILL Doesn’t Say What The Surgery Was About
• March 11, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Aretha Franklin, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Health, Protestant Denominations, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Women
Tags: "People Magazine", Access Hollywood, Aretha Franklin, Bingeing, Coyness, Fat, Gastric Bypass Surgery, Health, Interviews, Overeating, Pancreatic Cancer, Publicity, Rapid Weight Loss, Singing Tour, Surgery, Vanity, Weight, Wendy Williams
Tea Time with Wendy Williams and Aretha Franklin
• March 3, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American History, Aretha Franklin, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Fashion, Food, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Television, The Heart, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Wendy Williams, Women
Tags: "Dancing with the Stars", African American Cooking, African American Cuisine, African American Women, African Americans, Age, Alec Mapa, Aretha Franklin, Birmingham MI, Channel 3-2, DWTS, Fantasia Barrino, Gastric Bypass Surgery, Grammy Award, Late Night Eating, Loni Love, Madison WI, Miss Re, Natural Food, Pork, Queen of All Media, Rapid Weight Loss, Salt, The Pig, The Queen of All Media, The Queen of Soul, The Townsend Hotel, TV-W, Weight Loss, Wendy Williams, Wendy Williams Show, Wild Animal Print Clothes
“Somewhere” is Here and Now
• February 13, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Africans, Algeria, American Foreign Policy, American History, Arabs, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Egypt, Film, Islam/Sufism, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Obama Administration, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Revolutions, Spirituality, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Tunisia, World History
Tags: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", "Somewhere", "The White Queen of Soul", "West Side Story", African Americans, Algeria, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Birmingham AL, Blacks, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dusty Springfield, Egypt, Freedom, Governor Walker, Kennedy Center Honors, Love, Martin Luther King, Miss Re, Miss Re Re, Pell Grant, Quincy Jones, Right-to-Work, Roberta Flack, Scott Walker, Self-Worth, The Nineties, The Seventies, Tunisia, Wisconsin
Fantasia Barrino To Play Mahalia Jackson?
• February 9, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in African American History, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Diabetes, Health, Mahalia Jackson, Music, New Orleans Music, Protestant Denominations, Race, Spirituality, The Heart, Weight Gain/Lack/Loss
Tags: "A Dry White Season", "American Idol", Chicago IL, Civil Rights Activist, Color Purple, Euzhan Palcy, Fantasia Barrino, Fish and Bread Singer, Gospel Music, Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, Louisiana, Mahalia Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., New Orleans, The Hollywood Reporter
The Queen of Soul Has Incurable Pancreatic Cancer
• December 8, 2010 • 3 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, Aretha Franklin, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cooking, Cultural History, Democrats, Diabetes, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Fashion, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Protestant Denominations, Religion, Sexuality, Spirituality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Women
Tags: "Dr. Feelgood", "Freeway of Love, "Live at the Fillmore West", "Respect", "The National Enquirer", "Who's Zoomin' Who?", African Americans, Aretha Franklin, Bessie Smith, Black Women, Blacks, Cancer, Carolyn Franklin, Coma, Condoleezza Rice, Depression, Detroit Free Press, Diabetes, Diabetic, Diabetics, Drug Abuse, Edward Franklin, Erma Franklin, Exercise, Growing Up, Incurable, Junkie, King Curtis, King Curtis and The Kingpins, Knives, Lady Soul, Love, Martin Luther King Jr., Miss Re, Miss Re Re, Murder, National Enquirer, New York, Pancreatic Cancer, Patrick Swayze, Queen of the Blues, Reverend C.L. Franklin, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Smoker, Smoking, The Eighties, The Kingpins, The Queen of Soul, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States
Trailer for “Venus Noire,” The Film About ‘The Hottentot Venus,’ Saartjie Baartman of South Africa
• October 20, 2010 • 3 CommentsPosted in Acting, African American History, Africans, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Class, Crime, Cultural History, European History, Film, France, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Saartjie Baartman, Sexuality, South Africa, The Rest of the World, Travel, United Kingdom, Women
Tags: "Venus Noire", Abdel Kechiche, Abdellatif Kechiche, Africa, African Americans, Arts, Black Venus, Black Women, Blacks, Britain, Circus, Colonialism, Degradation, Director, Drama, European Colonialism, European History, Exhibition, Exploitation, France, Hottentot Venus, Intervention, Khoi People, Khoikhoi, Khoisan Woman, Movies, New York, Pejorative, Prostitution, Racism, Rape, Saartjie Baartman, Sarah Baartman, Self Image, Self-Worth, Sex, South Africa, Subhumanity, United States
Playwright Ntozake Shange Talks about Tyler Perry and “For Colored Girls”
• October 12, 2010 • 5 CommentsPosted in Acting, African American History, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Books, Class, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Drama, Education, Film, Love, Memoir, Murder/Manslaughter, Ntozake Shange, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, Spirituality, Stroke, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, Anika Noni Rose, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Black Women, Blacks, Brooklyn, Drama, Growing Up, Harriette Cole, Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Love, Marriage, New York, Novelist, Ntozake Shange, Playwright, Poet, Racism, Sex, Sexism, Sexism in the African American Community, The Root, The Seventies, The Washington Post, Tyler Perry, United States, Video
A Disappointed Member of the Black Middle Class Addresses the President
• September 21, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Bailouts, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Homelessness, Joblessness, Subprime Loans-Foreclosures, Teabagging Party, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Stimulus Bill, The Tea Party Movement, Women
Tags: African American, Alternatives, American Dream, Barack Obama, Black Women, Blacks, Foreclosures, Joblessness, Middle-Class, New York Times, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Racism, Real Estate, Republicans, Subprime Loans, The Black Middle Class, The Economy, Third Political Party, Two-Party System, United States, Velma Hart, Veteran, Washington
The Ancestors Summon Artist Varnette Honeywood, 60
• September 14, 2010 • 3 CommentsPosted in African American History, Art, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Education, Love, Race, Varnette Honeywood, Women
Tags: "The Cosby Show", African American, African American Art, African Americans, Art, Artist, Bill Cosby, Black Art, Black Women, Blacks, California, Delta Sigma Theta, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, Love, Marriage, Originals, Southern California, Terry McMillan, The Eighties, The Huxtables, The Nineties, Tulane University, United States, Varnette Honeywood, Varnette P. Honeywood
Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back: Gabourey Sidibe on the Cover of Elle Magazine’s 25th Anniversary Issue
• September 14, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Fashion, Gabourey Sidibe, Janet Jackson, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Women
Tags: "Elle Magazine", "Elle", "Vanity Fair", "Vogue", African Americans, Alek Wek, Amanda Seyfried, Attractiveness, Black Women, Blacks, Color Politics, Colorism, Dangerous, Darkening Color, Gabourey Sidibe, Janet Jackson, Lauren Conrad, Lightening Color, Megan Fox, O.J. Simpson, Racism, Retouching, Special Issue, Unattractive
“America’s Got Talent” Sends Home Alice Tan Ridley, Subway Singer and Gabourey Sidibe’s Mom
• September 5, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in Acting, Alice Tan Ridley, Aretha Franklin, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, Gabourey Sidibe, Love, Music, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "America's Got Talent", "The Bodyguard", Alice Ridley, Alice Tan Ridley, Broadway, Classics, Gabourey Sidibe, Gospel, Howie Mandel, Hustler, Jazz, Middle-Aged, R&B, Reality Show, Studio One Young Beast Society, Talent Competition, Talent Show, The Hof, The Oscars, Unofficial Poll
Queen Latifah with Rev. Al Green: “Simply Beautiful”
• July 14, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Fashion, Love, Music, Music Videos, Television, Women
Tags: "Simply Beautiful", Al Green, Neo-Soul, Queen Latifah, Reverend Al Green, Soul
Queen Latifah’s Promotional Appearances for “Just Wright” on Letterman and for CBS News
• May 14, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Fashion, Film, Gossip, Health, Queen Latifah, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Just Wright", "The Late Show with David Letterman", "The Late Show", African Americans, Black Couples, Black Love, Black People, Black Relationships, Black Women, Blacks, Book, CBS News, Common, Film, Film Promotion, High Heels, Love, Perfume, Queen Latifah, Romantic Comedy, Sex, Single Black Women
That Pine Sol Sista: The “Intensity” Campaign is a Straight Up Winner
• May 7, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Commercials, Consumerism, Cultural History, Diane Amos, Race, Sexuality, Television, Women
Tags: "Advertising Age", "Balancing Act", "Intensity" Campaign, "Mandingo", "Notorious", Actress, Advertising, Barbara Billingsley, Black Man, Black Women, Comedian, Commercials, DDB, Death + Taxes, Diane Amos, Housework, James Medellin, Lesbian Mom, Mopping Floors, Olivia Cruises, Pepper Miller, Pine Sol, Sexuality, Shannon Hassett, The Clorox Corporation, The Economy, The Great Recession, Voice-Over, White Man
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