J. Nicole Brooks
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J. Nicole Brooks
@DoctaSlick
Multidisciplinary Artist, Mellon Playwright, film & tv Actor, Triathlete, Fashion Stylist in the making with Law Roach School of Style 🏎️44
Chicago انضم Nisan 2009
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Downtown Chicago was home to not one, not two, but six passenger train stations. So what happened to them? #RailsWTTW to.wttw.com/4c7jAWr
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Celia Cruz Poured Herself Into Everything She Sang
The Queen of Salsa — and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's first predominantly Spanish-language inductee — instinctively understood the emotional truth behind her songs, no matter the genre.
Story: rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…
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🤣SO true. When lighting strikes happen in the distance, the bargaining that happens 🥴
Emily Waldon@EmilyCWaldon
The Midwest version of living on the edge is trying to squeeze in a shower before the tornado warnings start.
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THIS SONG was the reason to finish my homework. I got them assignments done so that I could tune into Rap City and see this video🔥 a criminally underrated MC
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HERTUNBA at Fashion Week’s Woven Threads VII in Lagos 2026
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James Ingram & Michael McDonald
Yah Mo B There - 1983
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Dorothy Ashby - Little Sunflower (1968)
#BMH365 🎶🎤@BlackMusicHstry
Remembering Dorothy Ashby, Saturday, August 6, 1932 to Sunday, April 13, 1986 Born Dorothy Jeanne Thompson in Detroit, Dorothy Ashby came up in a deeply musical environment shaped in part by her father, guitarist Wiley Thompson. At Cass Technical High School, she encountered the harp and began turning an instrument many people associated with the concert hall into something agile, modern, and unmistakably her own. Scholarly work on her early training also notes that she was the only Black member of the Cass Symphony orchestra in the late 1940s, a detail that says a great deal about both her discipline and the barriers surrounding her from the beginning. Ashby belongs in jazz history not as a curiosity, but as a builder of form. She helped establish the harp as a true jazz instrument, capable of bebop phrasing, rhythmic drive, and harmonic seriousness. Records such as “The Jazz Harpist,” “Hip Harp,” “Afro-Harping,” and “The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby” remain the clearest proof. Her reach also extended far beyond her own albums, through work connected to artists such as Louis Armstrong, Stevie Wonder, and Bobby Womack. In Detroit, she and her husband John Ashby also developed the Ashby Players, a Black theater company whose productions addressed community life directly. Her career moved through overlapping barriers of race, gender, and instrument. Even so, she kept expanding the vocabulary around the harp, refusing the idea that it belonged only to refinement, background texture, or novelty. What Dorothy Ashby proved was larger than technique. She proved that the instrument could swing, speak, improvise, and carry intellectual weight inside modern Black American music. Her legacy has only widened since then. Contemporary harpists, especially Brandee Younger (@harpista_), who said this back in 2023: “Dorothy Ashby was the pioneer harpist who opened up the instrument to Black musicians like me.” — Brandee Younger Ashby died at home in Santa Monica on April 13, 1986, after a long battle with cancer. She was 53.
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Hall of Famer Cheryl Miller has been hired by NBC to be a studio analyst when it begins broadcasting WNBA games this season, the network announced.
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MacKenzie Scott donates $70M to Meals on Wheels to help seniors in need. Full details: complex.com/life/a/bernade…
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Happy Birthday Harold Washington, Washington was the first Black person to be elected mayor of Chicago.
Washington served as mayor from 1983 until his death in 1987. He also was a member of the US House of Representatives and served in the Illinois House of Representatives & State Senate.
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Breaking: A'ja Wilson, the WNBA's first-ever four-time MVP, is signing a three-year, $5 million supermax contract to return to the Las Vegas Aces, sources tell @ShamsCharania and @Andraya_Carter.
The deal is the largest in WNBA history to date.
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