ME'SHELL NDEGEOCELLO IS A gay, black, single mother with a shaved head and a nearly unpronounceable name (actually, it's Me-shell Nuh-day-gay-O-chel-lo). Not the usual stuff of rock stardom. Female rockers have a better shot, convention holds, if they are boy toys with cute, catchy names like . . . Madonna. NdegeOcello spent two years trying to interest record companies in her iconoclastic music, a shotgun marriage of funk, jazz, hip-hop and angry poetry that she calls...
Rock star Prince topped the list of nominees on Wednesday for the 12th annual American Music Awards, with 10 nominations to Lionel Richie's eight and three for last year's big winner, Michael Jackson.Prince was nominated in every category for which he was eligible: favorite black male vocalist, pop-rock male vocalist, black single, pop-rock single, black album, pop-rock album, black male video single, pop-rock video single, black male video artist and pop-rock male...
IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR The Real Lives of Black Single Mothers By Barbara Omolade Kitchen Table (P.O. Box 908, Latham, N.Y. 11210); 16 pages; $3.50 ----------------------------- VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THE ONGOING CHALLENGE TO RACISM By Angela Y. Davis Kitchen Table; 20 pages; $3.50 ----------------------------- Long portrayed by social scientists as wanton welfare lovers, black single mothers have something to say. "Contrary to the...
The conventional wisdom is pretty much unanimous: There are more black women than black men in the Twin Cities, and the women aren't happy about it.At gatherings of black single groups, there are always more women than men in attendance, says Denise Dunbar, a 42-year-old single teacher in Minneapolis. Imogene Koehler, owner of a new company that helps black professionals move to the Twin Cities, says women friends tell her ``it's very difficult to find a mate...