Tuesdays are generally reserved for iconic inspiration cause the lives of others can teach us what to do and what not to do. But for the final iconic Tuesday of 2008; GT’s gonna go totally cliche and full out cornball and choose Y-O-U. Despite what we are feeling are about the economy, our lives, our [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Kenneth Wingard is a best kept affordable design secret and GT is proud to own one of this San Fransico based designer signature pieces. This week’s iconic inspiration is short, sweet and to the point. Kenneth wanted affordable contemporary modern design duds that wouldn’t make your credit score sing the blues. So he put and [...]
Read the rest of this entry »We all know that misunderstood chick on the right.
But do we know that silver haired fox known as Bethann to the left? Beth Ann Hardison is a woman warrior, former model, mother of Dwayne Wayne, a pioneer, a brilliant mind and the champion advocate of black model representation. Now some not you may think that models [...]
GT is sure that there’s a film you’ve seen where actor Jeffrey Wright played a role and you didn’t even know it was him till somebody told you so. Jeffrey is one of those rare actors that make you go “Oh Snap Son…was that him?”
Read the rest of this entry »Remember the scene in Love Jones where Nia Long says that Sonia Sanchez’s poetry makes her want to burn her book? Well LA born Kehinde Wiley will make you want to just perish the thought of becoming a serious painter after seeing his larger than life painstakingly detailed black man collages.
Read the rest of this entry »Many of music’s most gifted singers suffer from the mainstream market’s determination to categorize artists and pigeonhole them into niches. And that’s just really unfortunate. Rachelle Ferrell is one of those ultra rare singers that not only can’t be marketed; she defies category.
Read the rest of this entry »GT won’t give you the typical info about Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. Yes. She played a key role in bringing Black literary culture to the to mainstream.
Read the rest of this entry »There are no words to describe what America has really witnessed so GT will be taking off today and tomorrow so the brain and the spirit can realign. I’m truly overcome by a range of emotion that will take time to subside.
But readers please share with me your euphoria…
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