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Zozibini Tunzi Won Miss Universe in Natural Hair — Despite Advisors Telling Her to Wear a Wig

#ZozibiniTunzi MissUniverse #SouthAfrica #NaturalHair For the  first time in history , Miss Universe is a woman with  natural hair . On Sunday, Miss South Africa  Zozibini Tunzi  won the crown with her beautiful short, Afro-textured hair — and she did it despite being told by "a lot of people" that she should wear a wig. "It was so strange because even a lot of people I knew, people that were my friends, were like, 'Sis, we love you, but we're just saying, maybe you should put on a wig or buy a weave,'" she told  Insider . A few years back, Tunzi realized that she was  sick of spending hours in the salon . "I decided, no, this is not worth it," she told the site. "I decided that I just want to go for a different look. I'm going to cut my hair and see how it looks from there. And I just remember looking into the mirror and loving it." When it came time for the pageant, she didn't want to compromise her appear

Inside the Battle for Britney Spears

#FreeBritney #BritneySpears #conservatorship S hortly after noon on a sunny day last May, reporters staking out the Los Angeles County Superior Court’s Stanley Mosk Courthouse downtown spotted Britney Spears hand in hand with her mother, Lynne, sneaking through a side door and taking pains to avoid the earnest crowd of devoted fans parading outside with #FreeBritney signs. It was a rare appearance by the Princess of Pop, whose court-appointed attorney, Samuel Ingham III, usually represented her alone in these proceedings. Each year, rules of the probate court require a review of the status of the legally mandated conservatorship headed by her father, Jamie, compelling the parties involved to justify continuing the arrangement that for more than a decade has controlled every aspect of Britney’s business and personal life since her well-documented and very public breakdown in 2008. For months rumors had been swirling in the press and on Britney fan sites that the 38-year-old m

New Order & Duran Duran Documentaries to Premiere on Showtime

#NewOrder, #DuranDuran, #Showtime, #Documentary, #Eighties, New documentaries on  New Order  and  Duran Duran  will premiere back-to-back on  Showtime  December 27th, with  New Order: Decades  airing at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT and  Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know  at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Showtime also unveiled trailers for both documentaries. Directed by Mike Christie,  New Order: Decades  will serve as part documentary, part concert film, following the band as they prepare to re-stage their 2017 collaborative show with the artist Liam Gillick and a 12-piece synthesizer orchestra,  So It Goes . The clip offers a preview of the meticulous and difficult preparations for the show, as well as interviews with the members of New Order as they discuss their desire to make sure the performance isn’t just a pure exercise in nostalgia. Meanwhile,  Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know  was directed by Zoe Dobson and will delve into the band’s remarkable and revolutionar

Dancing Without Sound, Performing Without Sight [video]

#Dance #Opera #PerformingArts #Disabled # PerformingArtsTroupe Founded in 1987, the China Disabled People’s Performing Arts Troupe enact some of the most enchanting and intricately choreographed dances, plays and operas you will ever experience.  Without hearing, dancers use sound vibrations to interpret the beat; without sight, musicians use breathing patterns to keep pace. Together, they perform the “Thousand-hand Bodhisattva,” one of the most challenging pieces for the troupe to learn. Today, they’ve taken their talents around the world, performing in over 100 countries. By Great Big Story , Jan 22, 2018

"Love is a combination of six ingredients: care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust". Bell Hooks

#AfricanAmerican #BellHooks #Love #Respect  #WhereWeStand  #ClassMatters  "Love is a combination of six ingredients: care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust". Bell Hooks A writer, teacher and cultural critic, bell hooks is best known for her work examining systems of domination, especially racism and patriarchy, and how they may be overcome. She has published more than twenty books, including  Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black; Killing Rage: Ending Racism , and  Where We Stand: Class Matters . hooks says that uncovering and naming the forms of oppression in our society is an extension of her lifelong curiosity about love and her desire to see love manifested. “Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that it means we will not be challenged or changed,” she once wrote in the Buddhist magazine   Shambhala Sun . “When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to thin