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☆ Frankie Beverly, lead singer and founder of Maze, dead at 77
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Frankie Beverly, who with his band Maze gave the world a an anthem that will forever be tied to cookouts and good times, died on Tuesday, his family announced. Love one another as he would want that for us all,” the statement which was signed by the Beverly family concluded. Howard Stanley Beverly aka Frankie Beverly 12/6/46 - 9/10/24.”No cause of death was shared. Legend has it that Beverly changed his first name to Frankie for the stage in homage to singer Frankie Lymon, who found fame singing doo-wop as part of the group Frankie Lymon and the teenagers. In 1970 Beverly founded the group Maze, which was originally known as Raw Soul.

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For all the versions of Beyoncé we’ve seen in her career — beauty queen, vixen, scorned women — stand-up comedian might be her most uninhibited. But as much as the Renaissance World Tour is limned with the beauty of aliveness and vitality, it is also preoccupied with mortality. She is deeply aware of the precarity of Black, queer and trans life. The shift between the ecstasy of the concert and the reality of the world was so disconcerting it was almost physically painful. But Beyoncé isn’t the undertaker; she is directing the second-line band at the funeral procession.

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☆ The Woman Shaping a Generation of Black Thought
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Jenna Wortham | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

In her first book, “Monstrous Intimacies,” Sharpe writes extensively on Walker’s work to reveal how society is programmed to default to racist narratives. The work in Sharpe’s office, like many of Walker’s famous prints and sculptures, is devoid of color. The more time I spend with Sharpe’s work, the more it inflects my ways of seeing the world. According to Sharpe, Blackness is anagrammatical, meaning that the structures that order language, thought and society become disordered — if not destroyed entirely — when they encounter Blackness. “Her work has shown that we, as Black people, are the foils of humanity,” Frank B. Wilderson III, author of “Afropessimism,” told me.

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