Danii Gold, also known to many as Bri is an established writer on multiple digital platforms. Danii enjoys writing about entertainment and lifestyle stories.
Happy 30th birthday to the successful singer and businesswoman.
Rihanna had a successful year last year when she launched her Fenty makeup line in September 2017 and racked up $72 million in the first month!! Fenty was also named one of the best inventions of 2017, by TIME magazine.
She also raised over $2 billion for Senegal. Her album Anti, released in 2016, has beat Katy Perry for the most #1 singles in a Dance Club songs. She’s even got a street named after her in her home town of Barbados!!
She is pawpin!!! (poppin) and can only go up from here. Happy Birthday Ri Ri Boo!
To look on the bright side, there are things you can do for yourself on this day, likeeeee treat yourself to a mani pedi, take a solo lunch date, maybe even a solo movie, get ya nails did, but wait….I do all those things anyway. So really today is just a normal day lol!
But uhhh, YAYYYY, to everyone who’s celebrating and has someone special to share the love with!
Meanwhile, I’ll be working and probably watching bae…
#DidYouKnow that Good Times aired for the first time today, 44 years ago? Of course i wasn’t born when the show originally aired but I definitely watched reruns lol!
Happy Birthday to good show that showed a struggle, strength and love and may Esther Rolle rest in peace.
After a long three years…I’ve finally made it to 100 posts! My goal this year to be more active on my blog this year and hopefully not take another 3 years to create 100 posts lol.
Todays Black History Fact is about Eartha Kitt. She was the original singer of the Christmas hit “Santa Baby” and was the first Black Catwoman in the Batman and Robin series in the 1960s.
Eartha also played in Boomerang as Lady Eloise, Madame Zeroni in Holes and the voice of Yzma in The Emperor’s New Groove which won her an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Feature Production. She’s been on television and in movies since the late 1940s (uncredited).
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Eartha acted in films up until a year before she passed in 2008 from colon cancer.
May her recognition live on and may she Rest In Peace.
I recently read that Best Buy will be pulling all of their CDs from their shelves starting in July. Even Target is considering the idea, under the condition the music suppliers agree to a consignment base sales platform. In simpler terms, that means Target only want to pay for the CDs that sell instead of selling whatever CDs the supplier sends them and what they doesn’t sell, they have to pay to ship the items back, which is what they’re doing now.
I remember being a young kid and my mom having a tape player in her car and listening to Jodeci.
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To take it back a step further, I remember my Nanas having a vinyl player (turntable) and me, her and my little cousin Cobi (RIP) would listen to Michael Jackson’s Bad album.
To go back further than that lol, my grandpa gave my dad his old school 1974 Rolls Royce and it had an 8-track in it, and my dad would listen to some Al Green when I rode with him.
Fast forward to my high school days, i would record songs on the radio using a tape andddd i started buying CDs in elementary school (allowance money). I even got into making mix CDs, ask my friends and cousin about me lol. I was ON it! So, to hear that one of the places i would buy my CDs from, Best Buy, will stop selling them starting in July, it’s sucks! Am i getting that old? I’m only 20….something, and I feel like I’ve seen all the phases in which music has been played over the years.
Currently, my Jeep does not have a CD player. I play music from my phone through Bluetooth but prior to that, i was STILL buying CDs up to two years ago. I’m guessing this won’t hurt the music sales as much since artists are getting their money through streams via Apple Music, Google Play, Spotify, Tidal, Sound Cloud And even YouTube. But I’m still kinda sad because I feel old lol!
Since today is Rosa Parks Birthday, it’s only right to dedicate the first Black History Fact to her.
Rosa Parks was first recognized when she refused to give her seat up on a Montgomery bus to a white man. Back in the 1950s, Black People had to sit in the back of the bus and since there weren’t any available seats, Rosa sat in the white section. She had just got off work, and did not want to stand because she was tired of giving in to all the inequality. After she refused, she was kicked off the bus and that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and drew attention to the Civil Rights Movement.
The case got the attention of the NAACP chairman and the case was taken to the District Courts in Alabama. The judge ruled that “racial segregation laws are unconstitutional.”
Rosa will forever be recognized for her courage, activism and her fight for equality for Black People. She fought for change in the world alongside with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr; even though the world isn’t perfect, we’ve came a long way with her courage and dignity.
Happu Birthday to Ms. Parks, who passed away in 2005 but would’ve been 105 today.
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