If Cookout Music was a musical genre, then Maze featuring Frankie Beverly would be the standard bearers. For most of my life, the majority of cookouts I have ever attended would have music by Maze playing. Their silky, elegant style of R&B reached its peak in...
Icon #4
by MHill | Mar 4, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Icon tells Rocket she is pregnant. Rocket can't believe it but decides to take an over-the-counter pregnancy test to make sure. As readers, we all know what the answer will be. Rocket sees her life flash before her eyes as she talks with her best friend about it how...
Marion’s Favorites: Biggie I Got A Story To Tell
by MHill | Mar 4, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Movie Reviews
I just watched the latest Netflix documentary on rapper The Notorious B.I.G. aka Christopher Wallace. I will admit that he was not my favorite rapper of all time. Big Daddy Kane holds that spot with Rakim as a very close second. However, I love watching the...
Marion’s Favorites: Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions
by MHill | Feb 28, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Music Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
One of the positive attributes of the internet is that you can be sent down a rabbit hole and pique your curiosity unexpectedly. A few days ago, I went down that aforementioned rabbit hole and wanted to find out more Stevie Wonder's Classic Period Albums from 1972 to...
Icon #3
by MHill | Feb 28, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Issue 3 continued from what happened in Issue 2. The Mayor of Dakota was held hostage by someone she had a connection too and the abductor wanted her to accept responsibility for causing an event to happen at a nearby island. Police stopped Icon and Rocket momentarily...
Icon #2
by MHill | Feb 21, 2021 | Black History Month, Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
The Mayor of Dakota, Thomasina Jefferson, is being held hostage at city hall. The police commissioner calls in S.H.R.E.D, the city's most elite police unit. They hold Icon and Rocket at gunpoint. Icon wants to comply with the police officers and Rocket reminds him...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 75: Invisible Men by Ken Quattro
by MHill | Feb 19, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Black History Month, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Black History Month is in full swing and I have seen many social media posts recognizing the achievements of African Americans throughout the nation's history. However, I have always wanted to find out something that does not get much recognition or overlooked during...
Icon #1
by MHill | Feb 11, 2021 | Black History Month, Marion's Favorites
In 1839, an alien spaceship approaches Earth. A pod from that spaceship is ejected and heads toward the planet. It lands in a field and creates an explosion. A slave woman notices the pod and finds a little black boy inside. The little boy is Augustus Freeman...
Marion’s Favorites: Icon from Milestone Comics
by MHill | Feb 7, 2021 | Black History Month, Marion's Favorites
I grew up reading comic books and they became my first entry point into becoming a lifelong reader. I don't think I would have ever become a regular reader of prose fiction without my time as a comic book reader. One of my favorite comic books I read in my early...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 72: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
by MHill | Feb 6, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Black History Month, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
If your spouse was wrongly accused of rape and went to prison for five years but gets released, would you remain married? That was the question An American Marriage by Tayari Jones attempted to answer in her popular novel. An American Marriage was selected for...