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...started playing "On & On" in heavy rotation. On the strength of her critically acclaimed, multi-platinum debut album Baduizm, she headlined this year's "Smokin Grooves" tour. Badu was christened the sole female (Adrina Evans anyone?) in the neo-funk pantheon along with D'Angelo, Maxwell and Toni Rich. Her success showed '90s rhythm and blues could be smart, innovative and sexy...
Ghana is honoring six writers. Besides Gates, Maya Angelou, Alex Haley, Charles Johnson, Richard Wright and Toni Cade Bambara will each have their own stamp. In a separate series, Uganda will issue stamps of Rita Dove, Mari Evans, Sterling A. Brown, Stephen Henderson, Zora Neale Hurston and June Jordan...
Star power also helped get Soul Food into production. Kenny ("Babyface") Edmonds, one of the most powerful figures in the music industry--he has penned hits for Madonna, Toni Braxton and others--produced it with his wife Tracey. Fox 2000 head Laura Ziskin gave the project the green light just days after reading the screenplay. The film was a labor of love for Tracey Edmonds, who was pregnant throughout preproduction and gave birth to a son, Brandon, shortly before shooting began. Says she: "Kenny and I had the same vision and the same tastes. Most people expect that...
OPRAH WINFREY Talk queen signs through 2000. She and her producers are happy, and Toni Morrison is ecstatic...
...issues and situations in such a totally different light from your first position that you wonder why you ever thought otherwise before. That happened to me over the course of this year with the Barker Center, Harvard's new humanities building, where the scholars of Ralph Ellison, Emily Dickinson, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, Feodor Dostoevski, and Ralph Waldo Emerson now reside...