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Published in ZORA

·Oct 1, 2019

Can Tami Sawyer Win Big in the Black South?

For this youngest mayoral candidate, a success in Memphis would be historic — At 37, Tami Sawyer is the youngest candidate running for mayor of Memphis — the majority Black, northernmost city of the Mississippi Delta. Memphis was founded in 1819 after negotiations with the Chickasaw Nation. …

Memphis

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Can Tami Sawyer Win Big in the Black South?
Can Tami Sawyer Win Big in the Black South?
Memphis

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Published in Dear Queen

·Mar 17, 2017

Sweet Love

Anita Baker in a white, two-piece tailored suit with shoulder pads in the jacket and a flaring skirt, singing “Sweet Love” at a standing microphone, her shoulders rocking back and forth. A live performance music video of that song always came on “Video Soul,” which I watched every chance I…

Music

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Sweet Love
Sweet Love
Music

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Jan 8, 2017

A Little Note About Mariah

Like nearly every black girl who was in elementary school in the late 80s and early 90s, Whitney Houston was my everything. I cried to her ballads and ran to my mother’s closet, put on her high heeled boots, and ran back to the television to dance and sing into…

Mariah Carey

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Mariah Carey

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