Wendy Jane’s Weekend Sounds: Earth, Wind & Fire – That’s The Way Of The Word...
Countless people all over the world expressed their sadness at the passing of Maurice White, 74, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, this week. I was also sad when I heard the news because EWF was the...
View Article4 Year Anniversary of WJSS today! – Wendy Jane’s Weekend Sounds: Beyonce –...
You’d have to be très isolated to not hear about the stir the new Beyonce video, Formation, and her performance at the SuperBowl 50 caused this past week. Formation is Beyonce embracing her blackness...
View ArticleThinking Out Loud, And Not The Ed Sheeran Thinking Out Loud, Though I Do Love...
It’s four years into my blog journey and it’s like you think you know what your blog is about and going to be about when you start out, but then, like life itself, the focus shifts and turns. I...
View ArticleWendy Jane’s Weekend Sounds: Vanity 6, featuring Denise Matthews – Nasty Girl
A lot of us who were dancing in clubs in the 80’s can probably picture themselves moving to, or mouthing the words to, Vanity 6’s hit, Nasty Girl. And, I saw on social media that hearing of the lead...
View ArticleWendy Jane’s Weekend Sounds: Corinee Bailey Rae – Been To The Moon
Corinne Bailey Rae. Yes, you remember her 2006 Put Your Records On and Like A Star, and then she seemed to drop out of sight, right? It’s said the British singer took a hiatus after her marriage to...
View ArticleGet Your Culture On! Must-See’s And Do’s This Weekend In Providence!
I think it’s always good to go beyond the cultural spaces you continually find yourself in. Cross over to another part of town. Explore a new artist’s work. That’s how I expand on my experience of...
View ArticleSeeing The Unseen: Reflecting On The New Works At The Wilbury Theatre Play,...
This past Saturday I attended a full day of cultural events around the city, all related in some way to race and social justice on both a national, and local to Providence, level. I started out...
View ArticleNothing Compares 2 Prince
Naked on a white Pegasus horse with Afrosheen relaxed hair, or maybe, press and curl. Mouth rimmed with feathery moustache befitting a new prince. He played every instrument. Every instrument. Wrote...
View ArticleWhat Can I Even Say?
I haven’t written here–not since my post on Prince’s passing.While I still lament the loss of our Purple genius, my mourning is not what has kept me from writing. Instead its been my decision over the...
View ArticleWendy Jane’s Weekend Sounds: Don’t Touch My Hair by Solange
Honoring Black women who speak their truth to power. Here is Solange’s, no longer needing to be known as Beyonce’s little sister, Don’t Touch My Hair. Also having checked out Cranes In The Sky, I look...
View ArticleWhat Are You Gonna Stand For: Donuts or Freedom?
I knew it wasn’t cool to, in my texting conversation with my friend Marco, to right after I asked him if he saw Birth Of A Nation the night before, ask if he wanted to meet me in line outside the new...
View ArticleSadly, A Still Timely Encore: The Every 28 Hours Plays and Community Response...
It didn’t matter to me that I had already seen The Every 28 Hours Plays at Trinity Repertory Company last October. I wanted to see them again. Trinity Rep actor, Joe Wilson, Jr., was one of a group of...
View ArticleAS220 Panel: FutureWorlds: Call To Action
AS220 Panel: Future Worlds: Call To Action On Thursday, September 8th, 2016, I attended the panel talk, Future Worlds: Call To Action, which was hosted by the non-profit art organization, AS220, at 115...
View ArticlePresidential Election 2016: Overcoming Hate, Finding Hope In Unlikely Places...
It’s been five mornings of waking up to what feels like a nightmare of a reality with the new President-elect of the United States. I won’t say his name, just as I avoided the social media postings...
View ArticleToo Angry To Scream.Too Sad To Cry.
Too angry to scream. Too sad to cry. Instead I bought a hot chocolate with almond milk and whipped cream to comfort myself on the way home from work after opening up twitter and seeing that the judge...
View ArticleA Tip Of The Hat And A Fist Raise To All The Anti-Racism Activists Past,...
I want to give major props to all the activists out there fighting the good fight. The good, hard, exhausting, frustrating, dangerous fight against racism. Personal racism. Systemic racism....
View Article2016: The Year In Review. 2017: You Have To Do Better
You know. I don’t even have to say it. 2016’s posts pretty much say it all, and this isn’t the half of it. Thanks for following along throughout the year. In January, I was barely done pondering how...
View ArticleHappy New Year: WJSS Weekend Sounds: George Michael and Queen – Find Me...
On Christmas Day, after a year of tremendous loss of once-in-a-lifetime artists like Prince and David Bowie, among others, the soulful George Michael passed away at the age of 53. I must say that as I...
View ArticleSo Proud of Our Young People: Providence Student Walk-Out Should Inspire Us All
On Friday, January 20, 2017, at precisely 11:08 a.m., a thousand students from over eight public, charter, and private high-schools in Providence, Rhode Island, walked out of their classrooms, and...
View ArticleFive Years of WJSS, and Valentines, I’m Shook
We’re all shook, aren’t we? But what has got you shook the most? Yes, we’re overwhelmed and angry and fearful of what we’ve seen in 2016, and the early months of this year. If it wasn’t unarmed...
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