For almost 9 years my dream job was to work for a leading multinational company, so that I could impress others when they asked, “What do you do for a living?” After many attempts year after year, finally, I joined Procter & Gamble as a Functional Expert working in the order…
Teddy Riley is known through R’n’B circles as the man who almost single handedly created the New Jack Swing music scene, which defined Black American culture during the late eighties and most of the nineties. Riley worked with artists such as Bobby Brown, Keith Sweat, Heavy D, Janet Jackson and none other…
Curtis Mayfield was a singer-songwriter who first came to prominence as a performer in the group The Impressions during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1950’s and 60’s. Being the main lyricist of the group, his songs gradually became more reflective of social issues which were effecting mainly black housing projects. Think drug abuse,…
Lewis Hamilton is a British Formula One Driver and renowned World Champion. He is one of the greatest Formula One drivers of all time. Lewis started kart racing in 1993 and at the age 15, and in 2000 he was named Karting World Number One . His first race for…
As we approach June; it is that time of the year again where Game of Thrones fans start to anticipate the new (and sadly final) season of the hit show. Whilst many die-hard fans will have seen the new season trailer and theories are already circulating about what will happen…
Herbie Hancock: famed jazz pianist and composer who’s musical career spanned an enduring fifty five years. The public saw him experiment in multiple styles of music such as Jazz, Soul, Electro Pop, Funk and even Classical which enabled him to achieve success with crossover audiences. Born in August 1940 in Chicago USA.…
To sports fans in the US, Kareem Abdul Jabbar is known as a legendary Basketball player. For martial arts film fans in the rest of the world, he was known as the tall black bloke who fought with Bruce Lee in the 1972 film: Game of Death. Like a few other basketball players,…
Over the last couple of years, men have been embracing facial hair and experimenting with different styles of beard, mustache and side burns. Whilst it is suggested that the hashtag #movember and the competition undertaken each November for men to grow their facial hair for charity is the reason why…
Nowadays we take buying and wearing glasses for granted, but this was not always so. Once upon a time, people who lived in poverty with no money to spare often had to suffer life with poor eyesight. Unless born into a wealthy family that could support or afford any new…
Hakeem Olajuwon is a National Basketball Association Hall of Famer, and considered to be one of the greatest players ever to wear a basketball jersey. He even rivaled Michael Jordan, and had to leave his home country in Nigeria to travel to America to play college basketball. A player with uncanny footwork and…