Muse Headquarters: The Beginning

It started as motivation to complete my first book, The Other N Word...

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DNY: Bringing It All Back - Behind the Scenes

Ok, so shout out to the Doris New York team for an amazing shoot this weekend. Marlene Duperley is such a Supershero!!!! Hair, creative direction and styling all for her own company...talk about renaissance woman. Shameika Bowman on make-up, WOW as always. I am so lucky to have had her every step of my modeling journey and I am so proud to be in the company of her amazing list of clients. She only beats the best...lol. Brian Luvar, The Auteur, words can't express the depths of his talent. Even his test shots are cover ready.

Once again I had the best time and special shout out to Rowena Husbands for bringing her amazing energy to the shoot and David Von Kittelberger for blessing us with his wonderful jewelry.

Marlene has awakened the spirits of our ancestors and they are more than pleased! I am so grateful to play a role.

T.O.N.W. (The Other N Word)

TONW

No Not Now
Read the N words

Won't Won
Read the double woohs

But I was clear I was in my
'O' period

Which read
"Own" and "On"

(queue Erykah)

-The Muse

"The Great Black Way"

Yesterday I was invited to the final dress rehearsal for the new Broadway play, Stick Fly, being produced by Alicia Keys. Besides bringing up my Daddy issues, it got me thinking about what seems to be the dominant, if not only, model for producing Broadway plays whose themes are centered on African-American life and culture. That is, the celebrity-backed play.

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ZoraGirls

The Muse Story

I have always felt that my life had a special purpose. This purpose began to reveal itself to me over the past year and has culminated into something much bigger and much more special than I ever anticipated. I have been saying that 2009 would go down as the most significant year in American History and I did not think it was an accident that it has been so significant for me personally. This year I abandoned my legal career to start my own creative arts agency, I had my first child, Ryan Alexis Clark, and I turned 30.

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The Re(e)mergence

Coining a Movement

The word “revolution” instantly evokes images of violence or sudden and radical change, but in its basest form revolution is simply a movement along an elliptical course. With that in mind, I contend that we have entered into a new period of revolution. The current buzzword in discourse surrounding “The State of Black America” is “post”: “post-black,” “post-Civil War”, “post-racial.” It seems that we are afraid to make an official declaration of our present condition as black people in America. Enters Toure’ and his new book “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What it Means to Be Black Now.”

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