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Showing posts with label celebrities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celebrities. Show all posts
Friday, November 25, 2011
Jamelia on Natural Hair
I saw the singer Jamelia on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff today. She has been on the panel all week.
Jamelia says she has relaxed her hair for 20 years, but now she has decided to wear it natural.
Her two young daughters told her "When we grow up, we want to have straight hair like yours" and she said, "No, I love your big, bushy Afros".
This led her to question what type of image she is portraying, so she has decided to "bring back the Afro".
Well done, Jamelia. I hope more celebrities will follow your example.
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celebrities,
Jamelia,
Matthew Wright,
natural hair,
The Wright Stuff
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
One Isley Brother's Daughter
On What U Need to Know on Saturday, we interviewed Elizabeth Isley Barkley, author of One Isley Brother's Daughter
One of her nmain themes is the effect of celebrity on personal life - not just on that of the person in the public eye, but that of his or her family as well.
She argues that things are even worse now than they were when the Isley Brothers
To listen to the interview, click here for What U Need to Know, or click here to hear it on Success Strategies for Black People on Facebook.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Lenny Henry in the Slums
Comedian Lenny Henry has done a great deal of work for charity over the years. Through Comic Relief, he has travelled to some of the poorest parts of Africa to help raise money for those living there.
This time was different, though. He found himself in Kibera, one of the largest and poorest slums in the world, near Nairobi, Kenya.
Kibera houses approximately one million people in a one and a half square miles. Most of these people live in extreme poverty.
The slum is appallingly filthy, but Kiberans somehow manage to keep their homes spotlessly clean. They mostly live in corrugated iron shacks, and one toilet may be shared by anything up to fifty families.
Along with three other celebrities, Henry went to live in Kibera to raise awareness for Comic Relief. He stayed with a family of orphans who were looked after by their 16-year-old brother, the eldest of five.
Henry started by saying he had seen places like this many times before, but having spent the night there, said he had never seen anything this bad. He described it as "hell".
The children lived in one room, next door to an open toilet which regularly overflowed, causing raw sewage to flow through the children's room.
Henry broke from the rules of the documentary to use his own funds to buy the children another house to live in.
It was very moving to see Lenny Henry crying at the sight, and smell, of the children's living conditions. However, shame on Comic Relief for finding them and leaving them there to film. Why didn't Comic Relief move those children out of there? This is very exploitative.
Shame on you, Comic Relief. Shame.
I have never been a fan of reality TV, and this show did not make a fan of me.
In the end, all four celebrities helped the people they were staying with, and I found this very inspiring.
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BBC,
celebrities,
charity,
Comic Relief,
Kenya,
Kibera,
Lenny Henry,
slum
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