Cicely Tyson performed a Langston Hughes poem as she accepted a lifetime achievement award from Ebony magazine. Adding years and grit to her voice, Tyson recited “Mother to Son” from memory, telling the audience at the magazine’s annual Power 100 gala Thursday that “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” When she got to […]
On a frigid Saturday in early March as the midnight hour draws nigh, Mary J. Blige materializes on an outdoor basketball court sporting a blond mushroom-cloud of an Afro wig, a white leather maxi-coat and matching stiletto-heeled boots — along with a pair of giant wings perched on her back. Among her audience: three […]
