Vintage Black Glamour

The Roll of Honor is a way to thank early believers in the project by printing their name (or the name of a friend or loved one) in the back of the book. March 29th is the last day to pre-order and make The Roll of Honor for my next book, Vintage Black Glamour: Encore, which will be released this...

Happy 80th (!!!!) Birthday to The One and Only One of One, Ms. @DianaRoss Wishing you peace, blessings and love on this beautiful day! #DianaRoss #vintageblackglamour

I just had to have Lynn Whitfield @MsLynnWhitfield in my new book, Vintage Black Glamour: Encore (Summer 2024) because Ive been a fan since I was a teen watching her on PBS specials like this 1982 adaption of Ntozake Shanges classic, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow ...

Happy Birthday to Queen Latifah and Vanessa Williams! You may be surprised to know that I included both of these young legends in my latest (and surely last...) Vintage Black Glamour book, but time marches on. On Queen Latifah: Im older than her by five months and she was born in Newark, NJ, just...

It is with a heavy heart that I report that my aunt, Margaret Tynes, transitioned last Thursday evening (March 7, 2024) at the age of 104. Her amazing, international, 50 year career as a singer in opera, jazz and theater was the seed that inspired Vintage Black Glamour. Originally, I wanted to wr...

It is with a heavy heart that I report that my aunt, Margaret Tynes, transitioned last Thursday evening (March 7, 2024). She was blessed with 104 years here and her amazing, international 50 year career as a singer in opera, jazz and theater was the seed that inspired Vintage Black Glamour. Origi...

Happy New Year!!! Enjoy the official, traditional VBG clip for New Years Day: The Three Degrees on the Les Dawson show in the UK in 1975. I wasnt very active here last year because I was busy creating my new Vintage Black Glamour Timeless Planner (available now!) and the next book, Vintage Blac...

What a miracle to escape into a role and begin to breathe, to inhabit the skin of characters who raged against the world. Dear God, it was dazzling! A place to be all the unpretty things I was and, conversely, all the pretty things they said I could not, must not, be because I am black: elegant, ...

Happy Thanksgiving! I usually post the traditional Vintage Black Glamour Thanksgiving Day picture of our beloved icon, Lena Horne, demonstrating fuel conservation (see my stories), but today, I felt like expressing gratitude by honoring and remembering some of the Vintage Black Glamour in my own...

Celebrating my birthday today and the birth of my third book. Vintage Black Glamour: Encore is now available for preorder and will be officially released Spring 2024. Both editions are Hardcover this time (no silk edition this time). There is the orange Classic Edition and the ombre/blue Signatu...

I am so happy to finally be able to announce that my next book, Vintage Black Glamour Encore, will be published next Spring! How do you like the cover? This is not to be confused with my new Vintage Black Glamour Timeless Planner, which will be available next month and right on time for this holi...

My new Vintage Black Glamour Timeless Planner is available for pre-order today! It pays tribute to our favorite legends AND gives you an outlet to jot down your dreams, plans, goals and anything else you want to remember for a long time. This is not a 2023 planner - its a forever planner (hence, ...